Today I was going to write about the mental process of metamorphosing love into indifference and how difficult it’s turning out to be. Sometimes I attribute the difficulty to my advancing years, but it’s not true. It was every bit as hard the first time, and that was almost forty years ago. It’s just taking longer now, because I don’t have the distraction of college classes, Vietnam protests, nubile hippie chicks, and the occasional joint.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m happy to report that’s it’s not the only thing on my mind.<\/p>\n
Over the next ten days or so, I have to write the script for *Hard Time Season 2*, #5. I’m thinking about that, and an odd element I added to the story, a character’s ability to displace the sensation of pain and dump it into the nearest available psychic receptacle — i.e., another person. Sounds crazy, but I’ve seen it done. I’ve even been the other person. That, too, happened almost four decades ago. St. Louis. Biker chick. Long, weird story.<\/p>\n
I type the following sentence with extreme caution and trepidation: I’m feeling a little better today. I got my third dose of a very powerful medicine on Wednesday, and I’m wondering if maybe, just maybe, this time it’s going to work.<\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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