Tag Archives: James Joyce

updike: slow accretions of random detail

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Dave

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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take five with the marquise

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Disrupted momentum. A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading →

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fantasy on the life of the hybrid

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dave

The Tin Drum. At first sight this monstrous book looks as thought it might be a satire on the life of Germany during the Hitler era, the war, and the postwar boom. Its hero has a German name and thinks … Continue reading →

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sages of the stoop and curb

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Dave

In New York, people of all sorts freely mix with each other; but only slightly do they thaw and melt into a common pool of humanity. Edward Adler: Notes From a Dark Street. 1962. ….Martyrdom and suffering recounted in some … Continue reading →

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whose face did he see?

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave

There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading →

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the raw deal. throw the dice: winner take all

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Dave

And winner take all… imagined outcomes. Libidinal investments. Perversion as an attitude and perversion as a practice. As Walter Benjamin said in the Arcades Project:“The fascination of danger is at the bottom of all great passions. There is no fullness … Continue reading →

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modernist garden: flowers of evil

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Dave

In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading →

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on the back of: use and abuse?

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dave

Lucian Freud’s art could be termed anti-romantic and confrontational.And just plain creepy. He tended to represent people as he saw them, and between what he perceived and came out on canvas we will never really understand all the processes involved. … Continue reading →

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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading →

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TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading →