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A Different Acquaintance, a novel (in progress) by D. L. Pughe

Posted on February 5, 2015 by D. L. Pughe

 This is a brief summary of the book. Mayer has the soul of an old cello, a gentle, old-fashioned, avuncular gentleman originally from Hungary and who has become a respected emeritus scholar still living in his adopted ivy league town. … Continue reading →

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Collected Thoughts

Posted on April 8, 2015 by D. L. Pughe

An excerpt from A Different Acquaintance, by D. L. Pughe The porcelain room of the great fortress of Würzburg is in a high archway connecting one enormous chilly stone chamber to the next. Those rooms are warmed only by massive … Continue reading →

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In the Thick of the Woods

Posted on February 6, 2015 by D. L. Pughe

This is an excerpt from A Different Acquaintance by D. L. Pughe Mayer thought himself a creature of the forest, familiar with dark thickets in the still of the night. Perhaps he was a deer, but he knew his slow, … Continue reading →

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Dispatching Echoes

Posted on February 2, 2015 by D. L. Pughe

  an excerpt from A Different Acquaintance, a novel by D. L. Pughe Mayer is on his side again, on a slim leather couch in the cramped but magical guest room of his old friend János, a professor at the … Continue reading →

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About

Posted on February 10, 2012 by D. L. Pughe

D.L. Pughe is a writer and artist currently living in Berkeley, CA. MIT Press has published her essays in The New Earth Reader, and Writings on Water, and Writings on Air. “Letter from the Far Territories” was included in When … Continue reading →

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The Empathy of Edith Stein by D. L. Pughe

Posted on February 1, 2019 by D. L. Pughe

Knowledge is blind, empty, and restless, always pointing back to some kind of experienced, seen act. And the experience back to which knowledge of foreign experience points is called empathy.[i] Edith Stein Einfühlung ist eine Art erfahrender Akte sui generis. … Continue reading →

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Opus Posthumous

Posted on April 26, 2018 by D. L. Pughe

 by D. L. Pughe From 1990           Quite unexpectedly in late August of last year I was taken to the OP Project in the rural countryside near Utrecht. I was visiting my friends Lefke and Willem … Continue reading →

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