In search of lost time …
"A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman"
in The New Yorker , issue dated October 4, 2021,
contains diary and notebook writings from 1948 through 1950
by Patricia Highsmith, who has appeared here previously.
Another (undated) portrait, from the Web —
The above photographic portrait is undated, but it was
posted on 21 February 2006. This journal's posts
on that date have been tagged, in Highsmith's honor …
Now Lens .
See posts resulting from a search for “Lost Time” in this journal.
" In 1965, Mr. Simmons, an incisive, erudite reviewer and essayist,
won a William Faulkner Foundation Award for Powdered Eggs [ 1964 ],
recognized as a notable first novel. (He wryly called it his
'64th first novel.') The Boston Globe said it was 'certainly among
the outstanding fictions of the ′60s.' [ Later, in 1971,* ] The novelist
Harry Crews heralded him as 'one of the finest comic voices to appear
anywhere in years.' "
— Sam Roberts in a New York Times obituary this evening
See also Harry Crews in this journal.
Roberts says Simmons also wrote "a savage sendup of The New York Times
Book Review , where he had worked as an editor for three decades."
Some not-so-savage related material —
* "Anywhere in years" — From http://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/
an-oldfashioned-darling-by-charles-simmons- 202-pp-new-york-coward.html
Previous references in this journal to the "Church of Synchronology"
suggest a review of that phrase's source —
"The fine line between hokum and rational thinking
is precisely the point of The Lost Time Accidents ;
a brick of a book not just because of its length but
because of the density of both the prose and the
ideas it contains.
It is, in a nutshell, a sweeping historical novel that's
also a love story but is rooted in time-travel
science fiction and takes on as its subject
the meaning of time itself. This is no small endeavor."
— Janelle Brown in The Los Angeles Times
on February 4, 2016
See also …
The title refers to the Watchman Rorschach in "Go Set a Structure"
and to Christopher Nolan, director of the 2014 film "Interstellar."
"Watchmen"-like art in next Sunday's NY Times Book Review —
"Bostrom has a reinvented man’s sense of lost time.
An only child, he grew up—as Niklas Boström—in
Helsingborg, on the southern coast of Sweden.
Like many exceptionally bright children, he hated
school, and as a teen-ager he developed a listless,
romantic persona. In 1989, he wandered into a library
and stumbled onto an anthology of nineteenth-century
German philosophy, containing works by Nietzsche
and Schopenhauer. He read it in a nearby forest, in
a clearing that he often visited to think and to write
poetry, and experienced a euphoric insight into the
possibilities of learning and achievement. 'It’s hard to
convey in words what that was like,' Bostrom told me…."
— Raffi Khatchadourian
Questions posed by
“‘What is art?’ may be the
art world’s most relentlessly asked
question. But a more pertinent one
right now is, ‘What is an art gallery?'”
— from “Who Needs a
White Cube These Days?“
An example that may help:
London’s White Cube gallery
and its current Liza Lou exhibit,
which is said to convey
“a palpable sense of use,
damage, lost time, lost lives.”
See the previous entry for details.
On the brighter side, we have
“Accentuate the positive”–
and an entry from last Christmas:
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Compare and contrast:
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for details.)
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“Recollect what I have said to you,
that this world is a comedy
to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel.
This is the quint-essence of all
I have learnt in fifty years!”
— Horace Walpole,
letter to Horace Mann,
5 March, 1772
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