The Art of Hitting the Wall: A Memoir

The Art of Hitting the Wall: A Memoir

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July 2025

Chapter 7: The Edge of a Guilded Knife [Part III]
The River Arno splashes in ripples of olive green, like dirty paintwater, lapping merrily against the thick stone arches of the Ponte Vecchio.
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Chapter 7: The Edge of a Guilded Knife [Part II]
Through a narrow sliver between the workshop’s double doors, the street passes by in fragments.
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Chapter 7: The Edge of a Guilded Knife [Part I]
Not far from the cathedral, in the wealthy quarter where the bankers and silk merchants live, a single room still flickers with light.
Chapter 6: Beneath an Open Sky
The rain is falling heavily over Florence.
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Chapter 5: Out of the Fragments
I step out of the coffee shop onto Terrace Street.
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June 2025

Chapter 4: The Laws of Creation [Part II]
I twist the pithy core of a yellow pepper out over the sink and watch its tiny seeds skitter across the gleaming stainless steel.
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Chapter 4: The Laws of Creation [Part I]
To my readers, here’s the first half of Chapter Four.
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Chapter 3: The Birth of Venus
She floats toward us silently, across the surface of the sea, standing lightly in the hollow of a scalloped shell, as if gravity itself had granted her…
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Chapter 2: Between Chaos and Order
An ode to black and white, chaos and order, question and answer.
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May 2025

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