#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

[frequentpondcrosser]

“I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception. . . . I came to believe that life itself is such a sublime storyteller.” ~ William Maxwell (1908 – 2000), American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist

[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 ��ίναι 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).

Κυκλοφορεί σε μετάφραση του Παναγιώτη Κεχαγιά (έργο εξωφύλλου: Α. Πασχάλης).

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[diioonysus]

reading + art

[taiyangjiandan]

Screenshot from an anime I really like

[goodsirs]

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

[aiberrya]

They're silly

[nico-is-a-corn-plant]

Love the wolf 359 approach of getting rid of antagonists by introducing new, even more annoying antagonists. These antagonists are so annoying that the old antagonists join up with the protagonists to eliminate the annoyance. They ofcourse don't eliminate the annoyance before an even more annoying antagonist appears.

[penini-ink]

I had this ready a really long time ago I just forgot

anything to procrastinate school work… cropped vers. under here :3

[slabime]

it's finals time sorry for not posting so much. trying to pass all my classesss.

[frequentpondcrosser]

“They spoke with the natural, easy assurance of people who know that they are, socially speaking, the best; and that everywhere they go the best of everything will be reserved as a matter of course for them.” ~ William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf

[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 ^