#thomas wolfe

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd Street, August 12, 1936.

[Edgar Lee] Masters proclaimed in his booming courthouse voice that there was no better home for a writer than the Hotel Chelsea. He urged [Thomas] Wolfe to sign the register and stood by as the younger man grasped the pen, observing with satisfaction Wolfe’s receding hairline and slightly drooping jowls. Wunderkind or not, the author of Look Homeward, Angel needed spectacles to read. But Masters meant what he’d said about the Chelsea. Granted, it lacked the polish of the Algonquin, with its fabled Round Table wits and bow-tied maître d’. The Chelsea had had a run of bad luck ... Still, for people with small bank accounts but big imaginations, a unique and intriguing spirit lingered in the atmosphere. Like a stately ocean liner, the enormous Victorian-era residence had withstood the battering of the district’s successive waves of vaudeville theaters and nickelodeons, oyster houses and seamen’s bars, office buildings and warehouse lofts. Inside the Chelsea, a tradition of tolerance, built into its bones, had allowed its occupants to weather these changes with equanimity. 

    --Sherill Tippins, Inside the Dream Palace: The Life & Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013)

Photo: Berenice Abbott via Jackson Fine Art

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel

[mythologyofblue]

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” -Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

[barnabascollins]

on houses and haunting, on homes and tombs, on leaving and going back

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[decadent-hag]

He was twenty-eight years old now, and wise enough to know that there are sometimes reasons of which the reason knows nothing, and that the emotional pattern of one's life, formed and set by years of living, is not to be discarded quite as easily as one may throw away a battered hat or a worn-out shoe. Well, he was not the first man to be caught on the horns of this dilemma. Had not even the philosophers themselves been similarly caught? Yes—and then written sage words about it: "A foolish consistency," Emerson had said, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." And great Goethe, accepting the inevitable truth that human growth does not proceed in a straight line to its goal, had compared the development and progress of mankind to the reelings of a drunken beggar on horseback. What was important, perhaps, was not that the beggar was drunk and reeling, but that he was mounted on his horse, and, however unsteadily, was going somewhere.

Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

[turbulent-talkbox]

Next Winter

September 22, 2024

Sourced from Thomas Wolfe's Letters To His Mother (1943)

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"I want you to know that I wish I could be enjoying some fine spring with you. I know how much you enjoy spring and good weather.

I am having dinner tonight

Spending another winter alone.

Visit me if you feel like it.

And by next winter I will winter with you.

If you ever need anything I earnestly request you to let me know instantly.

I am happy to have someone to look after.

I can be where you are"

[litafficionado]

-from Mason Currey's Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

[officialurban]

✨The Completely 𝑅𝐸𝑀𝒜𝒮𝒯𝐸𝑅𝐸𝒟 Masters Mahan Podcast

✨A REMASTERED version of the original Masters Mahan Podcast, created by Thomas Wolfe - The REMASTERED Project takes the original audio only podcast episodes and turns them into visual presentations & videos for additional comments, and visuals✨

📝Show Notes / About📝

Something very strange is going on. People from all walks of life and from every corner of the world feel it. Something is wrong!

It is the intention of this short podcast to enter into the darker side of human history with the hope that it might be “a guidebook” to what is happening now and to what has happened to get us here. We can’t promise that it won’t be blunt, disturbing, and world shattering, but we can promise that it will be the truth; at least as much of the truth that can be gleaned from the maze of lies meant to disguise it.

When you do feel like your foundation is made of sand, remember the words of Jesus Christ when He said, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

🔞MATURE CONTENT / TRIGGER WARNING⚠️

This episode may be deemed inappropriate for some listeners. If you are immature, overly sensitive, or unwilling to embrace blunt truth, you are advised that you may want to skip this episode. If you have been ritually or scientifically abused, you should ask a safe person to listen first to see if this episode is safe for you to listen to as some information may be triggering.

If you are a minor, please consult your parents before continuing.

⚠️Series Created by Thomas Wolfe - https://mastersmahan.buzzsprout.com ⚠️

✅Series Reuploaded /w Express Permission of the Author & Also Covered Under Fair Use✅

⚠️FAIR USE CLAIM⚠️ We claim the right to Fair Use as determined by United States courts in this episode.

🚫This podcast is not monetized by neither me nor Thomas Wolfe, these episodes will remain ad-free and available to all - This mission is about spreading awareness, not monetary gain💵

⚠️NOTICE⚠️

Anyone wishing to use this episode in whole or in part is free to do so. We only ask that you provide some link or reference back to the source - https://mastersmahan.buzzsprout.com

As these episodes [REMASTERED] are used freely as authorized by the author, the remastered episodes are also free to be used by anyone wishing to do so. The only requirements to do so are

1) A link & attribution to THOMAS WOLFE (https://mastersmahan.buzzsprout.com) 2) A link back to this channel

[biryudumbenden]

Bazen durup dururken şöyle olur, hayatın içindeki bütün bu düzensizlik büyük bir düzenin parçasıymış gibi gelir. Aydınlanma gibi bir şey olur, bilirsiniz. Gülümsetir, Wolfe bizden çok önce gülümsemiştir: "Tanrım, her şey olması gerektiği gibi, her şeyin böyle olması gerektiğini anladım. Tanrım! Ulu Tanrım! Tüm bu düzen, ne kadar da tuhaf ama bir yandan da basit, vahşi, tatlı, acımasız, hoş, korkunç, gizemli. Tüm bu düzen ne kadar da mutlak ve tanıdık."

Daima dupduru geçmiyor günler sevgili okur. Bazen de bulut var, dağılacak, her şeye rağmen bir ömür bu, yaşanılacak. Var olun.

[thepersonalwords]

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Thomas Wolfe

[cuy-i-ruh]

Evine dönemezsin...

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Anthony Perkins in "Look Homeward, Angel," which played at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from November 28, 1957 to March 7, 1959, and then moved to the 54th Street Theatre from March 9 to April 4, 1959. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1958 for playwright Ketti Frings, based on the novel by Thomas Wolfe.

Photo: Friedman-Abeles via NYPL

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel

[amrv-5]

[trailofleaves]

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." — Thomas Wolfe

[quotelr]

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Thomas Wolfe