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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #16: Some Notes on Some Experiences

10 min readDec 2, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

The Mosaic of Paradisiacal Lake Tahoe

My time in Santa Cruz and South Lake Tahoe, at the tail end of my trip, only a few days from the start of my service year, has been both…

8 min readOct 21, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

A Necessary Stasis and Nietzsche’s Demon

How, if some day or night a demon were to sneak after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you, “This life as you now live it and…

5 min readOct 17, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #13: Encouragements of the Unconsciously Manf

I had a few days to kill still before my reservation in Yosemite. I stopped first in downtown Santa Barbara, spending the night on State…

11 min readOct 10, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #12: Car Chases and

I rolled into Las Vegas planning on a day or two of exploration. I’ll just visit Fremont Street tonight, I told myself, thinking it’d be a…

10 min readOct 5, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

A Tuneless Whistle

He trembles a cigarette between his lips,

1 min readOct 4, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #11: Zoë, John, Sophie, and Our Commodification of Nature

On my way to Flagstaff, AZ, where I planned to stay until my Grand Canyon hike, I unexpectedly passed Petrified Forest National Park and…

13 min readOct 4, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy#10: Juan, Louie, Chuck, Lupé and Her Mushroom Tree

What am I missing about Starbucks’ toilet paper dispensers? They stack two rolls on top of each other making it impossible to simply pull…

14 min readOct 1, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #9: Bugs and Butterflies

God, I fucking hope this is the right way, I thought out loud. Nobody was around to hear me, anyway. I was somewhere along the longest and…

10 min readSep 30, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Travels of the Twisted Gypsy #8: To Write or to Be a Writer (There’s No Such Thing as a Genius)

I could write for days on my romanticization of writing, my sense of a divine calling to the act of creation as simulating Godhood. I could…

4 min readSep 26, 2021

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Jackson Fischer-Diotte

Jackson Fischer-Diotte

BA in Literature from SUNY Purchase. Currently on the road, documenting my trip at https://thetwistedgypsy.org/ Writing on literature old and new, and travel.

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