Saturday, June 29, 2013

Nick Adams on Sex Ed


There ought to be something you could do for the Princeton, Yale and Harvard virgins, though. Why weren't there any virgins in state universities? Coeducation maybe. They met girls who were out to marry and the girls helped them along and married them.

EXCERPT FROM

Hemingway, Ernest. "Nick Adams Stories." SCRIBNER, 1972. iBooks.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Folly: Consequences of Indiscretion

Folly: Consequences of Indiscretion

Publisher:Fantagraphics

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161 pages. This digital edition includes an exclusive story, "Sigmund Freud," a tribute to Jack Kirby which does not appear in the print edition! Lovers of art comics know Hans Rickheit from his smashing graphic novel The Squirrel Machine (2008), but Rickheit has, for over a decade, been reaching into the deepest cupboards of the back-mind with his comics.Originally distributed into the world as Xeroxed pamphlets, these "underground comix" reflect the true nature of its nomenclature: Here are the archeological findings of the subterranean ruins of the psyche. Finally, these scattered elements have been compiled into a compact, lushly illustrated bedside reader. Give your cerebellum a tug and become a spelunker of the subconscious as we trespass among the scorched archaic wastelands of the offspring of apes and fools. Here we find the profane, beautiful progeny of prurient ideals. Immerse yourself in the nocturnal meanderings of unnamed protagonists. Ponder the uncomfortable sexuality of the twins, Cochlea & Eustachia. Recoil at the doings of a dwarfish malefactor in "Hail Jeffrey," or simply stare at the pretty pictures. Suffice to say that readers of The Squirrel Machine will not be disappointed.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

How Far Clerking has Fallen

"so that Suzy felt again the glory of office that had been hers when she had helped out in the store"

Excerpt From: Hemingway, Ernest. "Nick Adams Stories." SCRIBNER, 1972. iBooks. 
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Change-of-Lifers

"Mr. John said he didn't want to waste time with people who had enough money to take a vacation anywhere in the country they wanted and then came to a hotel without a bar and spent their time sitting on the porch in rocking chairs. He called the resorters "change-of-lifers" and he made fun of them"

Excerpt From: Hemingway, Ernest. "Nick Adams Stories." SCRIBNER, 1972. iBooks. 
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Revolutionary Qualities of the Bottle


After one comes, through contact with its administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.

EXCERPT FROM

Hemingway, Ernest. "Death in the Afternoon." Scribner, 1960. iBooks.
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Avoiding Textual Photography


I will not describe the different ways of using the cape, the gaonera, the mariposa, the farol, or the older ways, the cambios de rodillas, the galleos, the serpentinas in the detail I have described the veronica because a description in words cannot enable you to identify them before you have seen them as a photograph can. Instantaneous photography has been brought to such a point that it is silly to try and describe something that can be conveyed instantly, as well as studied, in a picture.

EXCERPT FROM

Hemingway, Ernest. "Death in the Afternoon." Scribner, 1960. iBooks.
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Kids these Days


But if you see them day in and day out unable to give a competent performance with any bull that offers any difficulties whatsoever you will wish for the old days of competently trained fighters and to hell with phenomenons and artists.

EXCERPT FROM

Hemingway, Ernest. "Death in the Afternoon." Scribner, 1960. iBooks.
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