Book: Ethan Frome
A powerful page-turner with such a vivid premise. The ending to me is a caricaturish violation, a real letdown. If that’s any indication of Wharton’s strengths as a writer I wouldn’t bother with the longer works.
Read moreBook: Essays by Wallace Shawn
Striking in the way it makes you think about the war, about the bubble of the elites. Committed to truthfulness, engagingly written. Turned me on to Mark Strand. Ends on kind of a week note about Shawn’s sex writing, about which we’re supposed to be familiar? As to being understood and acceptance, it does come…
Read moreMovie: Little Dieter Needs to Fly
finally saw this–magnificent.
Read moreAlbert Finney
struck me after watching Miller’s Crossing again, first time in probably a decade, Finney at that age would have been perfect for Beecher. Who else today is like him?
Read moreSeeking Water, Seeking Shelter
Dutch meal at Old First, rabbit, spoon bread etc, Kids loved it – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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Read morethe more you ARE something
the more you AREN’T something else…reified one way, open to error and attack
Read morethe fragile thing about the good person
the pathos of worrying for them that they will be harmed or go wrong or be disillusioned.
Read moresomething like
every great artist must create the taste by which he will appreciated
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