Literature

June 29, 2010

First sentences…

…his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Thinkers, Writers

Annie Dillard, Bernard Malamud, David Foster Wallace, E.B. White, First Sentences, Gabriel García Márquez, Guy Davenport, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Updike, José Saramago, Paul Bowles
June 25, 2010

Swann’s Way

From Mom and Dad, 12-25-81 Continue reading

Books, Literature, Memoir, Writers

Edmund White, Julian Barnes, Moncrieff, Nothing to be Freightend of, Proust, Swan’s Way
June 11, 2010

Friday Moleskine notes

Man #1: “You gonna stay with her when she’s in prison?” Continue reading

Literature, Philosophy, Photography

Comte, David Hurn, Emerson, Robert Nozick, William James
May 21, 2010

What do I know?

I have struggled through life as everyone else who has no family wealth, no special calling, no unique talent. Continue reading

Books, Family, Life, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy, Reading, The Examined Life

Know Thyself, Montaigne, The Examined Life
May 16, 2010

…the meaning of doing a thing seriously…

The influences of history, when we recognize and manifest them, cease to be past influences. They become present. Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Photography, Thinkers, Writers, Writing

Beethoven, E.B. White, Eugene Smith, Guy Davenport, Hegel, Henry David Thoreau, history, Lee Friedlander, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Photography, Reading, Robert Frank, Tolstoy
May 2, 2010

Persephone returns!

Spring – In ancient myth, Persephone is abducted by Hades and taken to the Underworld. (She was a babe.) Continue reading

Creativity, Literature, Nature, The infinity of ideas, Thinkers, Writers

Greek mythology, Hades, Persephone, Picasso, Spring, the Renaissance, The Romantics, the seasons

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First sentences…

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What do I know?

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Persephone returns!

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