Alysse Aallyn

Category: Dance

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    Diary of a Dancer – Last Post Party Castle – Mon 9 July 79 – 7:50 PM 26 hours without T. Spoke to him last night andagain this afternoon. His acceptance of me is total, but it comes froma position of strength and I have fears of being annihilated. Last nightI experienced hallucinatory states –…

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    Diary of a Dancer Tues 28 Mar 78 Extraordinary spiritual experience. A haunting. Someonestanding behind me in the empty house. I turned and no one was there butpower only increased. At first I was afraid – then felt a melting richness of love– coming at me, into me from outside of me. I realized it…

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    Diary of a. Dancer and figure out who I am. Read the first draft of The Speechless and theaccompanying comments of my college writing teacher. She bollixed itup. Her deconstructive destruction seems purposeful – I don’t believe shedidn’t know how good it was. Can I save it?  I know I should work on onething at…

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    Diary of a Dancer Poet hairbrush and other people’s plastic versions break my hair. Growl. I canwrite it out. It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. Emotional roller coastercontinues. Just when I declare myself a Celibate Slave to Art a very handsome(and very blond) man comes in tonight. He works in radio,…

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    Diary of a Poet Who Happens to be a Dancer not New Hampshire Ave but Riggs Road. Blind turns and nonsequentiallights give me that old country feeling. We had just seen The ParradineCase. Interesting. Good jumping off place for other ideas. I like the form.Could I manage novelistically the “outsides revealing insides” that film soconfidently…

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    Diary of a Poet Who Happens. to be a Dancer me in a hideous temper.  1 ½ hrs sleep, drove A to Laundromat, didlaundry, bought cosmetics, picked her up, did lunch and visited broker.Just like the other rich girls except for the Laundromat part.  Then toMVA, got MD license renewed, new address, not too horrible…

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    Diary of a Dancer honest scares. Frank Langella very sexy. At Italian dinner Mom andDad push island hard, but I know the old people would never leave mealone. They’d be worse than R. Still, there’s something magical aboutbeing protected from the real world by the ferry – places you can’t getto easily are wonderful just…

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    Diary of a Dancer PREPPY Corseted with verbsFrench teacher sweepsCherry blossoms from the tennis courtAs she would like to frenchThe cherries, squelch them soundlyBeneath her soccer-spiking shoes While the headmistressCello-breastedPolishes graffiti carved upon her coffinIn Chaucerian High English,And the girls –Nun-white, nun-blue Soar above the hockey fields likeFoul-mouthed angels, anticipated ecstasy lockedIn narrow hope chests…

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    Diary of a Dancer 10PM Mon 16 May 77Finally got a reaction from agent to Secaire. I was physically sick when I opened it but she was full of praise. I could teach Poe, Verlaine and Mallarme a thing or two! She’s sending itto Harcourt but telling them it’s “too fine for a paperback”. Says…

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    Diary of a Dancer novel will suffer. Maybe Mr. Pierce will take care of that. FinishedShelley – why is Triumph of Life always the Triumph of Death?Nothing left to read – Natural Hist of Vampire; ho hum, BeyondBelief is a yawn, Spoor of Spooks holds some interest but gratingtone. Finished scene between Nilssa and Labarraz…

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