Playing

Fats Waller
LONDON SUITES

Reading

Jean Giono
THE SERPENT OF STARS

Translated by Jody Gladding

JOHN STEINBECK
The Grapes of Wrath

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of hunger must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot if not sold at a profit. In the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

THOMAS MERTON
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. The former is supple and lifelike, it follows our experience. The latter is abstract and rigid, more ideal.

The latter is perfectly necessary, perfectly reliable: the former is only sometimes reliable and hardly ever systematic. But the logic of mathematics achieves necessity at the expense of living truth, it is less real than the other, although more certain. It achieves certainty by a flight from the concrete into abstraction.

Doubtless, to an idealist, this would seem to be a more perfect reality. I am not an idealist. The logic of the poet — that is, the logic of language or the experience itself — develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

November 2, 1939

Daily Painting

Aaron Douglas
THE JUDGMENT DAY (1939)
Cover art for James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones - Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

Daily Painting

Horace Pippin
THE GETAWAY (1939)

JOHN STEINBECK
The Grapes of Wrath

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Daily Painting

William Roberts

PUNTING ON THE CHERWELL (1939)

FRIC-FRAC

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Maurice Lehmann

France, 1939

Daily Painting

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Gordon Onslow-Ford

Determination of Gender (1939)

Daily Painting
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Pavel Tchelitchew

Portrait of My Father (1939)

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (William Dieterle, 1939)

Original Danish Poster

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (William Dieterle, 1939)

Original German Poster