Related material — Turning Nine and A Mad Day's Work.
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Nine Stories
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Nine Stories
See a search for the title in this journal.
See also Stories about Nine.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Plan 9 from Warren Public Library*
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Alternate Past: LA/91506
(Title suggested by the beanie label "Alternate Future: NYC/10001")
A version of the Salinger story title "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" —
"… her mouth is red and large, with Disney overtones. But it is her eyes,
a pale green of surprising intensity, that hold me."
— Violet Henderson in Vogue , 30 August 2017
See also that date in this journal.
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Friday, April 6, 2018
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Frames
"I just seemed to have more frames per second than other kids."
— Mary Karr, "Facing Altars: Poetry and Prayer"
See also "Signs and Symbols."
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Starting Out in the Evening
… and Finishing Up at Noon
This post was suggested by last evening’s post on mathematics and narrative
and by Michiko Kakutani on Vargas Llosa in this morning’s New York Times.
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“One must proceed cautiously, for this road— of truth and falsehood in the realm of fiction— is riddled with traps and any enticing oasis is usually a mirage.”
— “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?”* by Mario Vargas Llosa, New York Times essay of October 7, 1984
My own adventures in that realm— as reader, not author— may illustrate Llosa’s remark.
A nearby stack of paperbacks I haven’t touched for some months (in order from bottom to top)—
- Pale Rider by Alan Dean Foster
- Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Literary Reflections by James A. Michener
- The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
- What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- A Gathering of Spies by John Altman
- Selected Poems by Robinson Jeffers
- Hook— Tinkerbell’s Challenge by Tristar Pictures
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
- Changewar by Fritz Leiber
- The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
- The Hustler by Walter Tevis
- The Natural by Bernard Malamud
- Truly Tasteless Jokes by Blanche Knott
- The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
What moral Vargas Llosa might draw from the above stack I do not know.
Generally, I prefer the sorts of books in a different nearby stack. See Sisteen, from May 25. That post the fanciful reader may view as related to number 16 in the above list. The reader may also relate numbers 24 and 22 above (an odd couple) to By Chance, from Thursday, July 22.
* The Web version’s title has a misprint— “living” instead of “lying.”
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Metamorphosis and Metaphor
"Animation tends to be a condensed art form, using metamorphosis and metaphor to collide and expand meaning. In this way it resembles poetry."
— Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
description of an exhibition–
FRAME BY FRAME: ANIMATED AT HARVARD
January 28–Feb 14, 2010
For example–
Animation — The Animated Diamond Theorem,
now shown frame by frame for selected frames
Poetry–
Part I — "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire…."
Part II — Metaphor on the covers of a Salinger book–
For other thoughts on
metamorphosis and metaphor,
see Endgame.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
More Glass
Part I:
"…although a work of art 'is formed around something missing,' this 'void is its vanishing point, not its essence.' She shows deftly and delicately that the void inside Keats’s urn, Heidegger’s jug, or Wallace Stevens’s jar forms the center around which we tend to organize our worlds."
— Harvard University Press on Persons and Things (April 30, 2008), by Barbara Johnson
Part II:
"Did you see more glass?"
Part III:
From the date of Barbara Johnson's death:
"Mathematical relationships were
enough to satisfy him, mere formal
relationships which existed at
all times, everywhere, at once."
– Broken Symmetries, 1983
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The X's refer to the pattern on the
cover of a paperback edition
of Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger.
Salinger died on Wednesday.
"You remember that book he sent me
from Germany? You know–
those German poems."
In Germany, Wednesday was
Holocaust Memorial Day, 2010.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Saturday January 10, 2009
A Russian Doll
Introduction
For details of the story,
click on the images.
Chapter I:
Chapter II:
Chapter III:
and the following quotation:
"There is no landing fee in Avalon,
or anywhere else in Catalina."
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Friday January 2, 2009
Signs and Symbols
continued…
from the five entries
ending on June 3, 2008
and from yesterday,
New Year's Day
The end of a story by Vladimir Nabokov in The New Yorker of May 15, 1948:
"You have the incorrect number. I will tell you what you are doing: you are turning the letter O instead of the zero."
They sat down to their unexpected festive midnight tea. The birthday present stood on the table. He sipped noisily; his face was flushed; every now and then he imparted a circular motion to his raised glass so as to make the sugar dissolve more thoroughly. The vein on the side of his bald head where there was a large birthmark stood out conspicuously and, although he had shaved that morning, a silvery bristle showed on his chin. While she poured him another glass of tea, he put on his spectacles and re-examined with pleasure the luminous yellow, green, red little jars. His clumsy moist lips spelled out their eloquent labels: apricot, grape, beech plum, quince. He had got to crab apple, when the telephone rang again.
Click for details.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sunday June 15, 2008
“I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Wednesday, January 1, 2003
Wednesday January 1, 2003
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From The New York Times, Wed., Jan. 1, 2003:
Richard Horner, 82,
Broadway Producer, Is DeadRichard Horner, a Broadway theater owner and producer who won a Tony Award for the 1974 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," died on Saturday [December 28, 2002] at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 82.
According to one source, the O'Neill revival opened on December 28, 1973 — the same date on which the life of one of its producers was later to close.
From a CurtainUp review:
The revival at the Morosco was dubbed by its company "The Resurrection Play" since Jason Robards undertook the part just after a near fatal car accident and its legendary director José Quintero had just given up drinking.
According to the Internet Broadway Database, this revival, or resurrection, took place officially not on December 28 — the date of Horner's death — but, appropriately, a day later.
At any rate, O'Neill's title, along with my weblog entry of December 28, 2002,
"On This Date," featuring Kylie Minogue,
suggests the following mini-exhibit of artistic efforts:
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Curtain Up!
July 2000
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Under the Volcano: A painting based on Malcolm Lowry's classic novel. Having played tennis, Dr. Vigil and M. Laruelle talk about the events a year earlier. The view is of Cuernavaca from the Casino de la Selva hotel.
Painting by
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For further details on Kylie, Mexico, tequila, and
Under the Volcano,
see my entry of November 5, 2002.
For today's site music, click "Old Devil Moon" here.
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Addendum of 9:30 pm 1/1/03:
For a politically correct view
For a more perceptive analysis,
If there is a devil here,
J. D. Salinger (Nine Stories),
Frazer might appreciate the remarks in
Not amused: Charlotte Raven
Raven, take a bough.
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