Fantasies of reading

I wish I could write a play where Chogyam Trungpa is begged to begin recovery by his followers who are harden AA people.

I love Moon for Misbegotten, Waiting for Godot, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I have a biography of Beckett. I could read one of Albee and I think I'd take a pass on the addiction of O'Neil, and go to Miller. I have Bill Bryson's biography of Shakespeare on my shelf, but I'd love to really read about all the other ones around that time: Marlowe, Fletcher, Middleton, Kyd, Jonson.

I'm reading Lear, about Green Tara, Tibetan Mysticism, the archetypal Buddhas, Topeka School, Secular Buddhism, Morbo and V. No time to pick up a new book, need to finish some of the ones I'm reading. Reading is so linear, it's frustrating. Mostly I watch movies or TV, write. Life is too rich at times, and not enough at others.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

movie versus book

I'm watching the movie a second time, and I'm halfway through the book. Among the movie's differences from the book. Sortilege starts off narrating. The movie doesn't have the school bell for the phone either, just a regular ring. It's really weird the way Doc shouts when he sees the photo of Amethyst as a baby. I guess it's to dramatize the negative impact of being pregnant and using, but the child we see looks pretty healthy. The child doesn't huff out because they're boring like she did in the book. Superficially The Big Lebowski and Inherent Vice are similar but it's a completely different style of narrative. The Coen brothers are amazing, they have a very witty movie that I have loved for a long time. Pynchon is a whole other realm of fiction, and this conversion is fairly faithful, taking out the best lines and making it more compact. The audio book is 15 hours, the movie is 2 hours. Anyway, I like the different movies for different reasons. T...

Introduction

Robert B. Palmer's introduction to his translation of Walter F. Otto's Dionysus: Myth and Cult (p. ix-xi) Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Dead Pan W H E N Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu {Mor. 419 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking): As for death among such beings [i.e., deities], I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. The father of...

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