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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
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Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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ambassadors for the innocents
Henry James took to Europe his delicate sensibilities and Hemingway took his lusty appetites in the tradition of Mark twain and his Innocents abroad, an enduring myth from the perch of American cultural and moral superiority, a sort of purity … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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updike: small appliances of civilization
…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading
so romantic: but NIMBY
Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading
big country: call of the wild
Its a great business model. He travels into the far north, the deep tundra, and paints wilderness from within. He has corporate sponsorship from parka to paint brush and he even carries a rifle to defend himself and sometimes his … Continue reading
ahmed: melancholy imperfections
…Ahmed came from the forests of Mount Marsabit in Kenya. The only elephant to be declared a living monument, President Kenyatta also provided him with a permanent guard against poachers. A loner and quite elusive, Ahmed was seldom seen and … Continue reading
fear of a blank page: farewell to the shadowland
Hemingway’s story on his visit to Spain in 1959 got out of control and became a rambling mass of words, a tangle of literature nearly three times longer than the forty thousand words Life magazine had agreed to print. Hemingway … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Hotchner, Carl Jung, Carlos Baker writer, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Spain 1959, Gertrude Stain, Gertrude Stein the lost generation, Hart Crane, Hemingway A Moveable Feast, K.D. Lang Shadowland, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Spencer Tracy
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when the bell tolls
…Besides all that, Hemingway was committed to his public image. He was also weary of it and fatigued by its constant demands. Perhaps. But it was bigger than him and could lead him by the nose; as a fisherman he … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Hotchner, Antonio Ordonez matador, Carlos Baker biographer, Cayetano Ordonez matador, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Pamplona, Ernest Hemingway Spain, Ernest Hemingway Spain 1959, Luis Miguel Dominguin matador, Mack Sennet comedies, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, woody allen midnight in paris
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