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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least … Continue reading
Bad Dreams.
I read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 2 weeks ago and it has infected 70% my dreams since. The odious anti hero is a young man living in scary, pre-Enlightenment Scotland, in the early 18th century. … Continue reading
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A pulp novel I love. Tomboy “The Famous Novel of Juvenile Delinquency”, by Hal Ellison, 1950. buy at alibris
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“The pies and cakes had been ordered from a caterer in Yvetot. Since he was starting up in the district, he had gone to considerable pains: and when dessert time came he himself brought to the table a wedding cake … Continue reading
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Who’s the Psychopath? Running Down a Sanity Checklist.
I heard this in the car the other day. Jon Ronson’s hilarious investigation as to whether corporate leaders can, in fact, be psychopaths by visiting Al Dunlap, the turnaround artist known as “Chainsaw Al” for his cost-cutting at Scott Paper, … Continue reading
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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
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Poisonous Pencils
About two of my favorite people, who hated each other. The Bruiser by William Hogarth (created and printed in 1763). William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) Painter/printmaker/social critic/editorial cartoonist/pioneer of western sequential art paints and the Old King Cole of English pictorial satire, depicter … Continue reading
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