Recognitions ch 2 and link to cover for 93 penguin edition

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

"in the room the women come and go talking of Michellangelo"
TS Eliot snippet from "Love Song for J Alfred Prufrock"


I get the feeling narrator has a lot of contempt for Paris
"Paris lay by like a promise accomplished: age had not withered her,
nor custom staled her infinite vulgarity"p63
"far spaced posturings of haute couture" p64

but I also feel he despises the Americans
"You'll like Venice. It's so like Fort Lauderdale"p66

hmm. . .Wyatt seems to not relate very well to people who aren't artists
but he doesn't seem too happy himself
"The streets, when he came out, were filled with people recently washed and  
dressed,
people for whom time was not continuum of disease but relentless repetition  
of
consciousness and unconsciousness, unrelated as day and night, or black and  
white,
evil and good, in independent alternation, like the life and death of  
insects."p69

I really did like this passage
". . .they had gathered as transcripts of their seducers who were not known  
in this
land, and stood now stricken in erect silence up and down the aisles of the  
avenues,
surprised that those they had known in conglomerate childhood had also  
travelled,
had also been seduced, and that, in this shocked instant, by lovers more  
beautiful
than their own"p68

btw sorry if forgot link for previous post
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2101/The_Mellow_Pad

man I hate it when my posts come out in code


ed
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