Outtakes from Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

As Markie on the plist is always sayin' , the book contains everything.

Now, rereading this post, why do we think TRP wrote of/juxtaposed these two pictures ? 

One of eating fireworks,and, a "little clearer", the two " killers" caught as rigid as in an August Sander photo of two burghers. 

Sent from my iPad

On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/the-view-from-a-pinhole.html#slide_ss_0=1
> 
> p. 300, one of many quiet Big Bangs knotting explosions,light and time:
> 
> From a drawer in a cabinet against the wall, Merle took more gelatin-silver prints. “Maybe these’ll be some help.” One showed a pair of what looked like drovers in town for the Fourth of July, one of them appearing to force the other to eat a giant firecracker, all lit and throwing bright sparks, flying, dying, filling the unmeasurable fragment of time the shutter was open, to the amusement of others in the background looking on from the porch of a saloon.
> “You’re not telling me—”
> 
> “Here, this one’s a little clearer.”
> 
> It was out in front of this exact same amalgamator’s office. This time Deuce and Sloat were not smiling, and the light was more proper to autumn, you could see dark clouds in the sky overhead, and nothing was casting shadows. The two men were posed as if for some ceremonial purpose. For the gray day, the exposure was a little longer, and you’d expect one at least to have moved and blurred the image, but no, they had stood rigid, almost defiant, allowing the collodion mixture its due measure of light, to record the two killers with unrelenting fidelity, as if set in front of some slow emulsion of an earlier day, eyes, Frank, bending close, noticed now, rendered with that same curious crazed radiance which once was an artifact of having to blink a couple of hundred times during the exposure, but in this more modern form due to something authentically ghostly, for which these emulsions were acting as agents, revealing what no other record up till then could’ve.
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