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"Naw. It's time for a cigarette. But I apprech your generous thoughts."
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well I absolutely loved this book, but it may be my age. It says on the cover that this book spans the 50s to the 70s, but the first photos are from 1959, and the last (Michael Jackson, still black, on a coach, and playing with a mask) from 1972. So,...
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A hilarious and poignant ride through the end of the
1920s in which the duo, David & Rilda, are stand-ins for Scott & Zelda. David tells his wife that he has to get away "from what it is that makes us hate and love and drink." A black clairvoyant stu...more |
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Critics like to put down Maugham, but readers know you can't
put him down. The author of hit plays, he knew Ethel Barrymore, Gladys Cooper, among others. The stage is an effective prop as he warmly scopes the psyche of a plummy star (her set: asexual...more |
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"Stendhal: All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White
by Emily Bernard
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Shucks. What a disappointment. The sensitive author is sympathetic to culture maven CVV who, more than anyone else, brought attn to the talent that repped the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s. But her writing, at best, is late term-paper. Despite the vivid ...more |
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Worldliness incarnate. WMT lets us guess at Becky's exacto sexual involvements. He doesn't even tell us where the bedrooms are. |
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The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (Konemann Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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"I adore you, and all that sort of thing." Great line fr great "Vanity Fair." This edition of "Paris" has satiric drawings by aka Titmarsh. (Had no idea WMT wanted to be an artist). Sketches of G Sand, Versailles and other fripperies are modest. There co...more |
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“The man who satisfies a ceaseless
intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”
― Edmund Gosse
intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”
― Edmund Gosse
“Everything in life is "fixed.”
― Sketchbook
― Sketchbook
“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”
― Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle
― Carl Van Vechten, Peter Whiffle
“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas
“A cigarette is a perfect kind of pleasure...”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
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