Im disturbed that there is no book. There are no books.

If Umberto Eco can write “This is not the end of the book”, can I write this is a beginning? I’m disturbed that there is no book. There are no books.

I have no continuity; I keep everything dispersed. 

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UMBERTOUMBERTA is having no fun. (I was beginning a fiction writer.)

BIZZARROBIZZARRA has artist’s block. Or just blockade. My Italian / Italian-American heritage has so many blocks. Revolution, Fascism, I have to write about fish.