Via proustianmemory:
William Faulkner (1897-1962): Alcohol
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Rereading, not reading, is what counts.
My newest favorite website—the site for literary voyeurs.
The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years.
“Portions of two letters from Robert Lowell to T.S. Eliot following different manic episodes,” via Could it be Madness-this?
That’s John Locke there. From Gokhun Guneyhan’s Cogito ergo sum collection, via don’t touch my moleskine.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Alla Nazimova as the title character in her screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, 1923. John Coulthart writes: “Nazimova inaugurated the project, produced it and even part-financed it since the studios, increasingly worried by pressure from moral campaigners, regarded it as a dangerously decadent work. Nazimova had a rather colourful off-screen life and the stories of orgiastic revels at her mansion, the Garden of Allah, probably didn’t help matters.”
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Via benjaminhilts:
William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaug - Agrippa: a book of the dead
A collaboration between the artist Dennis Ashbaugh and the author William Gibson, this book is designed to self-destruct on use. A computer floppy disk encrypted with a virus contains an autobiographical text by William Gibson relating to the death of his father when the author was aged six, triggered by the discovery of his father’s old photograph album, a type marketed by Kodak in the 1920s under the name ‘Agrippa’. When the disk is viewed, the words of the story begin scrolling up the screen at a preset speed, the virus corrupting all the data. The first ‘reading’ of the disk is therefore also the last. The disk is contained in a cut-out portion of the book and is accompanied by a 46 page ‘text’ of DNA code and a series of copperplate etchings by Ashbaugh representing images of human genes, the latter printed in ink designed to rub off if touched which echoes the book’s theme of decay. Held in a dark slate-grey case with a base of honeycombed board reinforced with wire wire mesh and distressed paper, treated to simulate corrosion and fire damage.
I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate…. If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like.
Illustration from Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels by David A. Beronä. More scans from the book at BibliOdyssey.
