Recognitions ch 2 and link to cover for 93 penguin edition

[Mark Kohut]

Ed writes:
"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 
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---yeah, why? Because the phony demean them?

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 


----'for whom time was not continuum of disease"...WTF?....Time is the disease 
we die
from?...not live in, but are sick in?...or "are sick in while we live?"

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 

----Nice focus: a kind of innocence in being 'surprised' here?

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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