Get mixed with Bartleby the Scrivener
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(1) Two of my favourite writers on status, fashion, culture and aesthetics. Very good.
(2) The writer Janet Malcolm used to make collage-y bookmarks and give them as gifts. What a lovely idea.
(3) Watching the people sitting endlessly in Westminster Abbey reminded me of this bit of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, which seems true, of churches:
"I happen to have occasionally entered a church and sat there in peace a while with the people. I’ve always liked the fact that people can be together in there, without having to talk to one another. If they could chat, they’d instantly start telling each other nonsense, or gossip, they’d start making things up and showing off. But here they sit in the pews, each one deep in thought, mentally reviewing what has happened lately and imagining what’s going to happen soon. Like this, they monitor their own lives."
(4) And this bit of The Choreography of Everyday Life struck a chord:
"Once I heard on the radio that the characters in the books you read become real memories in your mind alongside the real people you have spent time with, and even though they are fictional, they lodge in your memory and get mixed with the real people, like your mother and father get mixed with Bartleby the Scrivener."
(5) Interesting is just 10 days away. We have a good crowd assembled, but it's always nicer when it's fuller, so if could give us a boost on your socials I'd be very grateful. Don't forget; immaculate vibes.
And that's it. I'll give you back your day.
russell
(There are 870 of you. 870 was the approximate date of completion of the Muspilli an Old High German poem. Its subject is the fate of the soul immediately after death. Many aspects of the interpretation of the poem, including its title, remain controversial. Poems, eh?)