#William Maxwell

[shy-girl04]

Photographer - Federica Erra

Modern life gets less and less worth living, is my solemn conclusion. Wherever you go there are always people.

William Maxwell, letter to Sylvia Townsend Warner, 1st March 1954

[mariocki]

Play for Today: One Bummer News Day (BBC, 1978)

"Ah, good morning to you. Peter Postgate of the Gazette, anything for us? No factory fires? No house fires? Well, what about your district agents? Not even a moggy up a tree? Wow, all right for some, isn't it. Yeah, and you."

[semperintrepida]

So far as I can see, there is no legitimate sleight of hand involved in practicing the arts of painting, sculpture, and music. They appear to have had their origin in religion, and they are fundamentally serious. In writing—in all writing but especially in narrative writing—you are continually being taken in. The reader, skeptical, experienced, with many demands on his time and many ways of enjoying his leisure, is asked to believe in people he knows don’t exist, to be present at scenes that never occurred, to be amused or moved or instructed just as he would be in real life, only the life exists in somebody else’s imagination. If, as Mr. T. S. Eliot says, humankind cannot bear very much reality, then that would account for their turning to the charlatans operating along the riverbank—to the fortune-teller, the phrenologist, the man selling spirit money, the storyteller. Or there may be a different explanation; it may be that what humankind cannot bear directly it can bear indirectly, from a safe distance.

—William Maxwell, from a speech delivered at Smith College on March 4, 1955

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Americana

The Ultimate Good Luck is my favourite book ever.

[fredricbadmann]

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory—meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion—is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

[madragoras]

Σαν σήμερα έφυγε από τη ζωή ο συγγραφέας William Maxwell. Ως επιμελητής του «New Yorker» για 40 χρόνια, υπήρξε μέντορας πολλών συγγραφέων της γενιάς του όπως οι Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Updike, J.D. Salinger.

O John Updike έχει πει ότι «πολλές από τις ωραίες πινελιές στα διηγήματά μου ανήκουν στον William Maxwell, αλλά τα εύσημα γι’ αυτές τα έχω πάρει εγώ». Ο Σάλιντζερ μάλιστα όταν ολοκλήρωσε το χειρόγραφο του «Φύλακα στη σίκαλη» έσπευσε στο σπίτι του Μάξουελ για να του το διαβάσει και να ζητήσει τη γνώμη του.

Το σημαντικότερο μυθιστόρημά του είναι το «Αντίο τώρα, τα λέμε αύριο», το οποίο κέρδισε το Εθνικό Βραβείο Λογοτεχνίας των ΗΠΑ (1982) και είναι ένα «από τα 100 επιδραστικότερα μυθιστορήματα της αγγλικής γλώσσας» (BBC).

Κυκλο��ορεί σε μετάφραση του Παναγιώτη Κεχαγιά (έργο εξωφύλλου: Α. Πασχάλης).

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[diioonysus]

reading + art

[goodsirs]

M*A*S*H 3.09 "Alcoholics Unanimous"

[gqasso]

Very messy rushed coloring because I gotta sleep

[zedleaked]

[CATCHING UP WITH CRINGETOBER]

DAY 7: CROSSOVER

ON MY TWITTER I HAD BEEN TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK DST MOD, THOUGH IT'S BEEN PUT ON HOLD BECAUSE I'VE BEEN BUSY,, HOWEVER... HERE'S AN EXPLANATION AS TO HOW BUCK GOT INTO THE CONSTANT...

ALSO THE ^

[keira-draws]

"it is time to test...the mettle of man."

[aiberrya]

They're silly

[swttinshy]

Happens… Domination!

Poor William, his personal space is being blatantly violated)

[fredbydawn]

I will not rest until the rest of MASHblr is as insane about the 80’s office AU ads as I am

So I wanted to compile the ads so I could just post one video and not like a whole YouTube playlist, but I quickly found out that there are SO MANY MASH IBM ads! So I decided to leave out ones that weren’t office related and were more ‘Alan Alda puts on a bunch of different hats’ and ‘Jamie Farr repeatedly tries and fails to enter a building’ and I actually had to cut one ad of Alan and some kids in a classroom that I wanted to put in cuz I think it’s cute.

But anyway, I am always gnawing at the bars of my enclosure thinking of the universe these ads take place in. Like, who flooded the office? Did Trapper ever get to go to Hawaii? Where’s BJ? (JK he’s at a gay picnic)

I feel like there’s a rich vein here and us weirdos, sickos, and perverts need to buckle down and really dig into the potential for office shenanigans.

[slabime]

doodles from this weekend

[sxtja090]

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