Henry Darger--items from a catalog

[JD]

The documentary is good.  For those with Netflix accounts it can be streamed
from their web site (no waiting for it to show up in your mail box).

It would be nice to have all of those texts (the 15,145 page Realms of the
Unreal, the 5,084 page autobiography, and I guess a second novel of over
10,000 words according to wikipedia) to sort of wallow around in but I get
the impression the documentary "spiffs it up" a bit, in other words, while
reading a handful of episodes from each text might be fascinating, reading
it in its entirety would likely turn one into a quivering, bored lump of
flesh.  But then you never know which segments any individual would find of
interest, the idea of "selections" of any work always turns me off a little
bit.

Who wants to volunteer transcribing it for release on the internet? ;)

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com
> wrote:

>  It says he was moved into 3rd grade because he could read before school. I
> was moved from kindergarden into 2nd grade because my mom taught me to read
> with those Dick and Jane books when I was 3 years old. His drawings remind
> me of those books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane although they
> would have appeared long after he had learned to read. It makes me wonder
> what basal readers he had gotten his hands on.
>
> 020    0847822842
> 245 10 Henry Darger :|art and selected writings /|[edited by]
>       Michael Bonesteel.
> 260    New York :|Rizzoli,|c2000.
>
> 020    0810913984
> 245 10 Darger :|the Henry Darger collection at the American Folk
>       Art Museum /|Brooke Davis Anderson ; essay by Michel
>       Thevoz ; translation by Catherine G. Sweeney.
> 260    New York :|American Folk Art Museum/Harry N. Abrams,
>       |c2001.
>
> 020    0929445155
> 245 10 Henry Darger :|in the realms of the unreal /|John M.
>       MacGregor.
>
> 020    0794205755
> 245 00 In the realms of the unreal|[videorecording] :|the
>       mystery of Henry Darger /|A Diorama Films production, An
>       ITVS presentation ; producer, Susan West ; a film by
>       Jessica Yu.
>
> 020    0374162700
> 245 10 Girls on the run :|a poem /by John Ashbery.
> 250    1st ed.
> 260    New York :|Farrar, Straus and Giroux,|c1999.
> 300    55 p. ;|24 cm.
> 600 10 Darger, Henry,|1892-1972|Adaptations.
>
> Natalie Merchant did a song called Henry Darger on her 2001 Motherland EP
> too.
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:21:50 +0100
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Henry Darger
>
>
> haven't found the time to watch the whole docu yet:
>
> In the Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger) Part 1
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PMBVxJnoPw
>
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