No Shave November - Photographer unknown to me.
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021
Thursday, November 11, 2021
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
"A Portrait in Greys"
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Will it never be possible
to separate you from your greyness?
Must you be always sinking backward
into your grey-brown landscapes—and trees
always in the distance, always against a grey sky?
Must I be always
moving counter to you? Is there no place
where we can be at peace together
and the motion of our drawing apart
be altogether taken up?
I see myself
standing upon your shoulders touching
a grey, broken sky—
but you, weighted down with me,
yet gripping my ankles,—move
laboriously on,
where it is level and undisturbed by colors.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
UMBERTO ECO
From the postscript to THE NAME OF THE ROSE
From the postscript to THE NAME OF THE ROSE
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My friends and editors suggested I abbreviate the first hundred pages, which they found very difficult and demanding. Without thinking twice, I refused, because, as I insisted, if somebody wanted to enter the abbey and live there for seven days, he had to accept the abbey’s own pace. If he could not, he would never manage to read the whole book.
Therefore those first hundred pages are like a penance or initiation, and if someone does not like them, so much the worse for him.
He can stay at the foot of the mountain.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Monday, November 8, 2021
Sunday, November 7, 2021
MARGARET MEAD
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It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Note: MAGA and MAGAts are NOT a lesser evil.
Pure evil is not the lesser of anything. It's a global threat.
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Nausea
Nausea
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I ruminate heavily near the gas stove; I know in advance the day is lost. I shall do nothing good, except, perhaps, after nightfall. It is because of the sun; it ephemerally touches the dirty white wisps of fog, which float in the air above the construction-yards, it flows into my room, all gold, all pale, it spreads four dull, false reflections on my table.
My pipe is daubed with a golden varnish which first catches the eye by its bright appearance; you look at it and the varnish melts, nothing is left but a great dull streak on a piece of wood. Everything is like that, everything, even my hands. When the sun begins shining like that the best thing to do is go to bed. Only I slept like a log last night, and I am not sleepy.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Samuel Beckett
WAITING FOR GODOT
WAITING FOR GODOT
Alan Schneider
With Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith
USA, 1961
With Zero Mostel and Burgess Meredith
USA, 1961
PLAY OF THE WEEK (1959-1961) presented 67 videotaped Broadway-style productions, broadcast nightly and Sunday afternoons on NTA-owned independent station WNTA-TV (now WNET) in New York City, and syndicated to approximately 100 other NTA Film Network-affiliated stations.
Because well-known performers were willing to accept minimum payments - top salary was $750 - for the prestige of appearing in the critically praised showcase, production costs were kept to an average of $40,000. Although the budget was low, the show had a high distinction which, combined with its reputation as an innovative production, gave it momentum and propelled it into winning a Peabody Award. (This text copied and edited from Wikipedia.)
Monday, November 1, 2021
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