Locator: 50366WTI.
"They" say the market it is in correction territory, down 10%. If your portfolio is poorly diversified, you are probably up 10% (or more).
Ticker: CVX --
Later today --
Six months --
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The Book Page
Joyce Carol Oates vs Joan Didion.
JCO: born 1938.
JD: born 1934.
John Gregory Dunne: born 1932.
More later. It's too early in the morning to write on this now.
AI prompt: Joyce Carol Oates vs Joan Didion.
Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde; a fictional biograph of Marilyn Monroe.
her memoir following the death of her husband, A Widow's Story,
reviewed in The New Yorker, December 5, 2010; link here.
Joan Didion on grief:
AI prompt: was the word "vortex" when associated with grief, coined by Joan Didion or was "vortex" already used by grief therapists by then?
Gemini: while Didion may not have been the absolute first person in human history to use the word "vortex" to describe emotional pain, she coined it as a specific, widely recognized metaphor for the modern, clinical experience of abrupt bereavement.
Blue Nights: published 2011
- a memoir; an account of the death of Didion's adopted daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael,
- died at age 39, 2005
- multiple major medical problems exacerbated by fall and subsequent intracranial hemorrage
- "blue nights": summer solstice, when the twilights turn long and blue;
- notable for its nihilistic attitude towards grief as Didion offers little understanding or explanation of daughter's death
- a companion piece The Year of Magical Thinking, published six years earlier, 2005
- following the death of her husband and hospitalization of her daughter
The Year of Magical Thinking: published 2005
- memoir; the year following the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunner, 2003;
- acclaimed as a classic book about morning
- won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction
- drew upon her extensive notes, journaling;
- New York Times Book Review: ranked the book as the 12th best book of the 21st century;
I spent a lot of time on this subject, grief and "vortex" for a couple of specific reasons. I will continue at a later date on a different blog.
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The Book Page
Ten years from now, it is likely the best-seller in non-fiction will be a history of the US-Iran war called An American Tragedy. It will begin with the loss of Susie Wiles' ability to keep the president in check.
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LNG (Cheniere)
Might LNG open above $300? LNG was trading for $190 on December 19, 2025 -- just a couple of months ago. That's a 58% gain in three months. Okay. With all the reading Charlie Munger was supposed to have done, one wonders.
