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Emily Hale
T.S. Eliot’s letters to her are sequestered in the Princeton Univ. vault until the year 2019. This article for some background My interests: how the people we know affect us, affect our creative endeavors. the subtleties of friendship and love. … Continue reading
on history, time, and memory
“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
Posted in history/memory, literature
Tagged delillo, didion, eliot, potok, sartre, vonnegut, woody allen, woolf
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany, 1974 “Everybody’s somebody’s fetish.” p. 324 This is one of the most bizarre, disturbing, beautiful, dense and fascinating novels I’ve ever read. I want to recommend it to everyone; however, I have to contain myself because … Continue reading
Posted in literature, los angeles
Tagged david foster wallace, david lynch, delany, eliot, william gibson
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cityscope: a compilation of obsessions
mini-book/zine i made for my friends, december 2006 ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, los angeles, movies/photography, music, philosophy/religion
Tagged albert speer, california, chatham, david markson, debord, delany, dictionary, didion, eliot, eternal return, fante, flowers, gaiman, hollywood, iggy pop, kundera, library, nathanael west, o'keeffe, palimpsest, park, plato, public transit, rilke, robert frost, ruins, shelley, watergate, west los angeles, woodward, woolf, yogi berra
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