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On the Mall

Posted on July 2, 2008 by twotreatises

Joan Didion’s essay “On the Mall” in Part IV of The White Album (1979) Malls of America blog of “Vintage photos of lost Shopping Malls of the ’50s, ’60s & ’70s” City X Radiolab podcast about the impact of the … Continue reading →

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upon rereading: “The White Album” by Joan Didion

Posted on December 11, 2007 by twotreatises

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor … Continue reading →

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Posted on August 27, 2007 by twotreatises

two: “As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside rather than in, those in whom the sense of dread is so acute that they turn to extreme and doomed commitments; … Continue reading →

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on history, time, and memory

Posted on August 7, 2007 by twotreatises

“In November of 1884, after the election of Grover Cleveland to the presidency, the Times continued to maintain for eleven days that the president-elect was James G. Blaine, Harrison Gray Otis’s candidate.” Joan Didion in “Times Mirror Square” in After … Continue reading →

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Passe

Posted on July 27, 2007 by twotreatises

for P “The Age of Irony is dead,” she said. The priest and poet nodded in assent. “How did it die?” said I, waiting in dread to hear of destruction without consent. The priest had just one brief explanation: “It … Continue reading →

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