RERUNS (1974), Fiction CollectiveRERUNS opens... "Separated at the present from my third wife, Molly, to whom I am not legally married, unable to get a divorce from my second wife to whom I am still on the books husband, the father of four children (perhaps five), the son of at least two parents, Jewish on my mother’s side, Italian Irish lapsed Catholic on my father’s, American, student, sometime soldier, comedian, filmmaker, revenger, driven in conflicting directions by dream-haunted ambition, I am here without wife or woman (no pleasant place to be), your guide and reporter, a hostage to the habit of rerunning the dead past in the cause of waking from the dream." |
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