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wallabee hoax: the down under side of the ecliptic
Australia. 1944. (see link at end)…The fact that Malley really didn’t exist has only increased his fascination in the Post-Modern era. It’s some time since Roland Barthes announced the death of the author, insisting that all texts should be seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Boyd art, Dave Dallwitz, David Brooks author, Ern Malley poetry, Ern Malley poetry hoax, James Dickey author, James McAauley Quadrant, James McAuley Australia, John De Burgh Perceval, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, karl shapiro, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Michael Heyward author, Ned Kelly Australia, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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ern malley:empty concoctions?
(see link at end)…It wasn’t long between the publication of the Ern Malley poems in the Autumn 1944 issue of Angry Penguins, and the revelation in the Adelaide and Sydney newspapers that they had been dashed off as a joke … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Tucker paintings, Arthur Boyd art, Corporal Harold Stewart, Ern Malley poetry, James Dickey author, John Betjeman, John Perceval art Australia, Joy Hester Angry Penguins, karl shapiro, Lieutenant James McAuley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Harris Angry Penguins, Max Harris Australia, Michael Heyward author, sidney nolan, sunday reed
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whose face did he see?
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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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Aristophanes, ben grauer, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Francois Rabelais, Henry Miller, James Joyce, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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the essential thing is to want to sing
Having read the first few sentences of Tropic of Cancer, you will remember them. Henry Miller can use the language. He writes strong, biting, memorable, vivid prose. Often it is unjust to begin criticizing a book by taking out its … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, Beat Poets, ben grauer, ben grauer interview henry miller, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Le sphinx paris, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, William S. Burroughs, Wittgenstein
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