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one transcription of “the one great truth which underlies all human experience”:
“a strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.”
oliver wendell holmes sr., “mechanism in thought and morals, 1871.
impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains
1. robert motherwell, drunk with turpentine no.32, 1979.
2. the footnote to holmes’s ether anecdote
dorothy burlingham, sigmund freud’s “dragon-in-chief” in the eyes of h.d., was born on this day in 1891.
letter to bryher, 4 march 1933
john cotton, cotton mather, elizabeth bishop, and adrienne rich all had stints in massachusetts, the land of puritanism and staid congregationalism.
see the “rocky breasts” and stone foundations below
cleaning out my camera roll…
1. i like the interior design in the 2004 catwoman
2. i was going to buy this for my dad for christmas lmfao
3. regarding susan sontag, 2014
4. sidney poitier and diahann carroll in paris blues, 1961
cf. d.a. miller on “the human toothpick case” robert ferrars and the scene in sense & sensibility where he’s giving orders for his own in the jewelry shop; esp his “activist materialization of insignificance”
(jane austen, or the secret of style, 2003.)
as far as thackeray was concerned, the battle of waterloo led to “one death and one bankruptcy.”
from a review of vanity fair by elizabeth rigby, lady eastlake, 1848.
lionel trilling, “mansfield park,” 1954.
(elizabeth bishop: “our proportions horrify our neighbors.”)
i think it was very clever of merchant & ivory to have as their basil ransom a man who was most immediately recognizable to audiences as superman (i.e., a charming alien from a destroyed planet)
trilling, “the bostonians,” 1953.
a pleasing list of names thanked by ian watt in preface to the rise of the novel (1957). my favs:
miss hortense powdermaker
john butt
talcott parsons
hrothgar habakkuk
