Horst's office

[alice malice]

Ebbitt where they talk of silent games over

http://www.academia.edu/400019/Life_and_Death_Overtime_Sacred_Play_of_the_Ancient_Mesoamerican_Rubber_Ball_Game



On Friday, February 21, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some readers have noticed the toilets and do-lunches, order-ins,
> take-outs, etc...in _Bleeding Edge_.  It's Manhattan at the time. Even the
> kids are bumping into people and doing lunch.
>
> Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli  by  Adam Gopnik <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/adam_gopnik/search?contributorName=adam%20gopnik>September
> 30, 200
> http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/09/30/020930fa_fact_gopnik
>
> So Horst bumps into Maxine in a Chicago Bar. A real place. The Magic of
> it. So Max does Lunch with Windust in a real place. Been there.
> And Max does lunch with Windust's wife, and they discuss her lunch with
> Windust's other wife, at Ebbitt.
>
> Now, if you've read Ulysses. Think about it. The food the toilet the
> waste.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bandwraith at aol.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Original. Just thinking about what, besides Maxine, connects
>> Horst and Windust- That, and the three foundational axioms
>> of the American Empire.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bandwraith at aol.com');>
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>> Sent: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 6:54 am
>> Subject: Re: Horst's office
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>> Is this a bandwraith original or an adopted quote? I like it.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:33 PM,  <bandwraith at aol.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bandwraith at aol.com');>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Rented at a discount:  White Albatross once emblazoned on
>> > the door, faded, but still visible. Liberty's torch, just able to be
>> > glimpsed from this angle, out the window- real glass- but
>> > sealed. On a stand, a potted fig, well pruned but leaning towards
>> > the light. In the desk, left by a previous tenant, a beat up copy of
>> > John Greenleaf Whittier's "Snow-Bound," crossed out with magic
>> > marker and overwritten: "Snowed In."
>> >
>> > "...Like a Battleship
>> >
>> > We're good..."
>> >
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