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[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Bret Harte/Truman Capote Mashup

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Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836.

Bret Harte, 1862

Bret Harte, 1862.

“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/More sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”-Bret Harte

Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984.

Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins

Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins.

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote

Daily Diversion #155: Who Needs a Pillow?

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Who needs a pillow? Not Miss Zizi Jeanmaire.

Miss Z

Miss Z

“Although the sphere and importance of vision were expanding at this time, to say that visual experience was becoming autonomous would be imprecise. The aesthetic of illusionism engaged viewers as embodied spectators, physically drawn into an image or alert to beat a hasty retreat. One measure of an illusion’s success was its ability to provoke a bodily response-an impulse to touch or to flee. The challenges that modern life and modern illusions presented to modern subjects were too great for vision to handle on its own.”-from the essay Seeing, Touching, Fleeing by Michael Leja (Moving Pictures American Art and Early Film 1880-1910)

The Dead Writers Round-Up: August 8th-10th

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  • Sara Teasdale was born on 8/8/1884. “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” (Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems; Helen of Troy and Other Poems; Rivers to the Sea; Love Songs)
  • Shirley Jackson died on 8/8/1965. “I delight in what I fear.” (Hangsaman; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; Life Among the Savages; many, many short stories)
  • Philip Larkin was born on 8/9/1922. “Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.” (The North Ship; The Less Deceived; The Whitsun Weddings; Jill)
  • Hermann Hesse died on 8/9/1962. “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” (Peter Camenzind; Gertrud; Siddhartha; Der Steppenwolf)
  • Adela Rogers St. Johns died on 8/10/1988. “Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky.” (A Free Soul; Tell No Man; The Honeycomb; many, many screenplays)
Sara Teasdale, July 11, 1919, by Arnold Genthe.

Sara Teasdale, July 11, 1919, by Arnold Genthe.

Hermann Hesse, 1929

Hermann Hesse, 1929.