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December 2, 2013
This quote from Susan Sontag is very similar to Allen...
This quote from Susan Sontag is very similar to Allen Poe’s quote. It is all about sanity, and everyone’s sanity is just the extreme of insanity.
December 1, 2013
Susan Sontag is a passionate fighter, she fights for humanity....
Susan Sontag is a passionate fighter, she fights for humanity. Don’t say if she is new left or what so ever, she is standing as a human being, and she is trying to protect the power of humanity.
November 30, 2013
onepointzerosixtwofive:
"The romantic treatment of death...
"The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, and more interesting, by their illness. ‘I look pale,’ said Byron, looking into a mirror. ‘I should like to die of consumption.’ ‘Why?’ asked a friend, who was visiting Byron in Athens in October 1810. ‘Because the ladies would all say, "Look at that poor Byron, look how interesting he looks in dying."’ Perhaps the main gift to sensibility made by the Romantics is not the aesthetics of cruelty and the beauty of the morbid (as Mario Praz suggested in his famous book), or even the demand for unlimited personal liberty, but the nihilistic and sentimental idea of ‘the interesting.’"
— Susan Sontag (1977) Illness as Metaphor
First, Susan Sontag in the photo smiles brightly. I’ve never see her this happy in all photography. She’d rather have her melancholoy temperament in front of a camera. I think, it is because of her standing near all the books.
Second, it is one of the most brilliant books, Illness as Metaphor. For Sontag, everything in her life could be written, it is interesting, it is amazing, even illness is part of her wisdom.
Again, she writes for the power of humanity. Anything that related to humanity could become her materials.
Look at her smile!
November 29, 2013
conleylowrance:
For real, I would eavesdrop that conversation...
For real, I would eavesdrop that conversation like nobody’s business. The Voidoid meets the Benefactor? What up.
"I belong to the blank generation". My first time to hear Richard Hell’s music, and Susan Sontag said, she cannot image herself without Rock&Roll’s influence.
November 28, 2013
violentplayground:
Diane Arbus Writer Susan Sontag with her son...
Diane Arbus Writer Susan Sontag with her son Davie NYC 1965
This photo is very strange. Sontag was not so shiny, and the two of them looked into the camera awkwardly. But I see how much close are these mother and son.
What happens when you cross Thanksgiving with Hanukkah?
November 27, 2013
theparisreview:
A manuscript page from an early draft of Susan...
A manuscript page from an early draft of Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover.
Wonderful nostalgic. It reminds me when Susan Sontag told Bei Ling, you need to learn how to use a computer. However, it also reminds me, Sontag says she hardly revise her novel, in most cases, only one draft, I think she doesn’t mean this one. I bet she means her early novels.
November 26, 2013
picadorbookroom:
Susan Sontag in a teddy bear suit. For more...
Susan Sontag in a teddy bear suit.
For more photos of famous authors in awesome costumes, click here.
This photo makes me think Susan Sontag is not my “European God”, she is just a funny person. I wish I could meet her in person, not in magazine.
November 25, 2013
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November 24, 2013
Patricia Lockwood: “What Is the Zoo for What” : The New...
Patricia Lockwood: “What Is the Zoo for What” : The New Yorker
” get the human stink hands off the animals!
But the hand is a zoo for hold! ” love the stanza!
