#katherine anne porter

[key-cat]

スタイルは作り出すものではありません。働き、自らを成長させれば、あなたのスタイルは自身の存在から発せられるのです。

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Katherine Anne Porter キャサリン・アン・ポーター

#Katherine Anne Porter #紫陽花 #花 #色彩 #landscape

[lyssahumana]

#Katherine Anne Porter #lit #literature #cats

[disceautdiscede]

Mankind has always built a little more than he has hitherto been able or willing to destroy; got more children than he has been able to kill; invented more laws and customs than he had any intention of observing; founded more religions than he was able to practice or even to believe in; made in general many more promises than he could keep; and has been known more than once to commit suicide through mere fear of death. Now in our time, in his pride to explore his universe to its unimaginable limits and to exceed his possible powers, he has at last produced an embarrassing series of engines too powerful for their containers and too tricky for their mechanicians; millions of labor-saving gadgets which can be rendered totally useless by the mere failure of the public power plants, and has reduced himself to such helplessness that a dozen or less of the enemy could disable a whole city by throwing a few switches. This paradoxical creature has committed all these extravagances and created all these dangers and sufferings in a quest - we are told - for peace and security.

-Katherine Anne Porter, The Future is Now

#katherine anne porter #the future is now #lit #quotes #futurism #technology

[violettesiren]

Now crunches down the frozen stalk On sterile snow: Chill core of winter fruit in the mouth Is bitter as a blow.

Pluck out this seed and bury it Under a rock: Against the winter measure of thin days Tapped out upon a clock.

Winter Burial by Katherine Anne Porter

#katherine anne porter

[viecome]

Empecé sin nada... Katherine Anne Porter

Yo nunca he hecho una carrera de nada, sabe usted, ni siquiera de la literatura. Empecé sin nada, excepto una especie de pasión, un deseo impulsor. No sé de dónde venía y no sé por qué he sido tan obstinada en ese sentido que nada pudo desviarme. Pero esta cosa que existe entre mi persona y mi literatura es el lazo más fuerte que he conocido con cualquier otra persona u otro trabajo que haya…

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#Katherine Anne Porter

[baroque-hashem]

Katherine Anne Porter, c. 1950s

#katherine anne porter #books #photography #literature #short stories

[danu2203]

LAST NIGHT’S VIEWING...SHIP OF FOOLS 1965.

#SHIP OF FOOLS #1965 #KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

[thatwritererinoriordan]

#may 15 #dr. seuss #horton hears a who #the wizard of oz #katherine anne porter

[jojoware]

As she began "Dear..." she thought again that it did not matter which of the lot she addressed the letter to, for they presented to her the impermeable front of what she called "the family attitude" – suspicion of the worst based on insufficient knowledge of her life, and moral disapproval based firmly on their general knowledge of the weakness of human nature. Jenny couldn't possibly be up to any good, or she would have stayed at home, where she belonged. That is the sum of it, thought Jenny, and wouldn't their blood run cold if they could only know the facts? Ah well, the family can get under your skin with little needles and scalpels if you venture too near them: they attach suckers to you and draw your blood from every pore if you don't watch out. But that didn't keep you from loving them, nor them from loving you, with that strange longing, demanding, hopeless tenderness and bitterness, wound into each other in a net of living nerves.

from Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

#Katherine Anne Porter #ship of fools #book quote #family #moral disapproval #human nature

[arfonoja]

Katherine Anne Porter - Wino o południu

#Katherine Anne Porter #Wino o południu #Czytelnik #1971 #czytanie #książki #books #literatura #biblioteczka #środkowa półka dziadków

[disceautdiscede]

And yet it may be that what we have is a world not on the verge of flying apart, but an uncreated one - still in shapeless fragments waiting to be put together properly. I imagine that when we want something better, we may have it: at perhaps no greater price than we have already paid for the worse.

-Katherine Anne Porter, The Future is Now

#katherine anne porter #the future is now #quotes #lit #futurism

[violettesiren]

You need not be afraid, I shall not wound Your pride with my edged scorn, Nor flagellate with my despairs The surface of your heart: For this my hate Is not a lash, nor thorn But a measureless, distilled Vial of torment endlessly refilled. And it shall fix upon your senses so, Shall of your slakeless fibres be such part As your wild blood shall mix within your veins My hard, enduring pains, In corporate with your immediate being. And if your pulse should From this transfusion that was the life of me.

This Transfusion by Katherine Anne Porter

#katherine anne porter

[inwhichiramble]

So out of the main hsmtmts girls (Nini, Kourtney, Ashlynn, Gina, Maddox, Val) who would you guys cast them as in Six the Musical?

Personally I’m thinking…

Catherine of Aragon: Kourtney

Anne Boleyn: Gina

Jane Seymour: Ashlynn

Anna of Cleves: Maddox

Katherine Howard: Nini

Catherine Parr: Val

#six the musical #Broadway #hsmtmts #six au #catherine of aragon #anne boleyn #jane seymour #anna of cleves #katherine howard #catherine parr #kourtney greene #nini salazar roberts #gina porter #val hsmtmts #maddox #ashlynn caswell #personally I just really want to hear Julia Lester sing I Don’t Need Your Love

[argyrocratie]

"The largest, quickest, and most devastating pandemic in all of human history was the influenza epidemic whose first of three waves began in Kansas in March 1918, and recurred in ever widening and more mortal forms in the autumn and the winter. Yet, this epidemic is distinguished from others by a second reason, the historical amnesia - a virtual blackout of memory - that has greeted it in subsequent generations. Its historian summarizes: "Nothing else - no infection, no war, no famine - has ever killed so many in as short a period. And yet it has never inspired awe."

Between 22 and 30 million people were killed in a year. Half a million of these were in the United States whose troop-ships carrying young men to the Western Front of Europe during World War I, in conditions that were floating test tubes of the virus, brought the 'flu to France, then Germany, England, and Russia, and from the European continent the virus was transmitted along the sea-lanes of European imperialism to Latin America, to West Africa, to India (where 12 million died), to China, Japan, and the Pacific islands. More were killed by the epidemic than were killed by the Civil War or World War I Which Robert Graves called "the Sausage Machine, because it was fed with men, churned out corpses, and remained firmly screwed in place."

The age specific mortality curve of the epidemic was shaped more like a 'W' than a 'U' which is to say that those in the strong middle years of life were as affected, and more so, than the very young or very old. This characteristic deeply worried the official macroparasitic institutions which relied on those in their middle years to produce, to reproduce, and to fight. To them, not so much life, as production and reproduction was the worry. Henry Cabot Lodge was concerned about the productivity of munitions plants. In March 1,000 workers at the Ford Motor Company fell sick. The number of rivets driven per day at the Philadelphia shipyards fell at a rate that alarmed the war producers. The equivalent of two combat divisions of the AEF, or the American Expeditionary Force ("Ass End First"), were incapacitated in France. 40% of U.S. Navy personnel were affected. 37 life insurance companies omitted or reduced their annual stock dividends. The macroparasites and the microparasite were thus in mortal competition for the bodies of the healthy ones in middle life, and that for another reason too. As an air-borne infection, "the rich died as readily as the poor."

(...)

500 were arrested in New York on "Spitless Sunday." Large gatherings were prohibited. Telephone booths were padlocked. Public water fountains were closed. In San Francisco face masks were required to be worn. Cash tellers were equipped with finger bowls. A municipal ordinance of Prescott, Arizona, adopted a suggestion from an obscure newspaper by the Fascist, Benito Mussolini, making it a crime to shake hands. The Army Surgeon General reported that "civilization could easily disappear from the earth."

The middle point of the 'W' grew and as a result the famous 'Lost Generation' of despairing American writers came into being, and yet with the exception of Katherine Anne Porter none wrote about the 'flu epidemic. Was this massive, social, denial? Was this male chauvinism? Was this a sequela of the disease's "profound systemic depression"? They are important, unanswered questions.

Katherine Anne Porter synthesized the times, the creation of the 'new man,' and the 'new woman.' As Prohibition loomed guys started sporting hip flasks, and the new woman took up the cigarette - alcohol and nicotine, traditional responses, since the 1790s, towards epidemics. The government-issue wristwatch became the emblem of the urban individual; it became essential to the urban-and-factory planning of the Twenties. The government drive for money (War Bonds) was the only occasion of permitted gathering, and that under the slogan "Give 'till it Hurts." Indeed, "Sacrifice" was the watchword for the soldier and the 'new' woman alike: give money, give your time, give your labor, give you life."

-Peter Linebaugh, "Lizard Talk: Or, Ten Plagues and Another - An Historical Reprise in Celebration of the Anniversary of Boston ACT UP" (1989)

#peter linebaugh #influenza epidemic

[alienejj]

Part 4: This is a collection of short stories, 50 penguin's modern classics.

31. THE GIGOLO by FRANÇOISE SAGAN. A middle-aged woman breaks with her young lover; a husband is suspected of infidelity; a dying man reflects on his extramarital affairs, in these shimmering, bittersweet tales of desire and disillusionment.

32. GLITTERING CITY by CYPRIAN EKWENSI. Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins tall tales and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos.

33. PIERS OF THE HOMELESS NIGHT by JACK KEROUAC. Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.

34. WHY DO YOU WEAR A CHEAP WATCH? by HANS FALLADA. Darkly funny, streetwise tales of low-lifes, grifters and ordinary people trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.

35. THE DUKE IN HIS DOMAIN by TRUMAN CAPOTE. This mesmerizing profile of an insecure, vulnerable young Marlon Brando, brooding in a Kyoto hotel during a break from filming, is a peerless piece of journalism.

36. LEAVING THE YELLOW HOUSE by SAUL BELLOW. A stubborn, hard-drinking elderly woman living in a desert town finds herself faced with an impossible choice, in this caustically funny, precisely observed tale from an American prose master.

37. THE CRACKED LOOKING-GLASS by KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's finest short story writers.

38. DARK DAYS by JAMES BALDWIN. Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.

39. LETTER TO MY MOTHER by GEORGES SIMENON. Georges Simenon's stark, confessional letter to his dead mother explores the complexity of parent-child relationships and the bitterness of things unsaid.

40. DEATH THE BARBER by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse, and made him one of the greatest twentieth-century poets.

#nejj bookblr #dark academia #light academia #academia #books #book review #booklr #book recommendations #reading #fiction #literature #lit #modern classics #book blog #bookblr #book haul #classic literature #classic academia #english literature #photography

[artemisia-black]

Tudor/Renaissance book recs

@ziggy-scardust you asked for this on a post and I've finally got round to it :D

Here are my faves:

Tudor books

Anne Boleyn aka my fave

The life and death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives - I regard this as the AB bible it is so comprehensive (to the point where it can be a bit dense to read). But an amazing portrait of Anne as a politician who understood how fashion and taste created an image of power.

Anne Boleyn: 500 years of lives by Hayley Nolan - Really interesting exploration about how different periods of history interpret/demonise Anne.

Catherine Parr

Katherine the Queen by Linda Porter- An amazing book about how educated she was- fully challenges how history remembers her as the wife who was Henry's nursemaid when she was a political creature in her own right.

Renaissance books

Women in the Renaissance by Margaret L. King - A comprehensive look at the roles, expectations, and daily lives of women during the Renaissance.

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff - A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a poet and a close friend of Michelangelo.

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford.

The Lady of the Renaissance: A Portrait of Isabella d'Este by Julia Cartwright - This book delves into the life of one of the Renaissance's most famous women

Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society by Letizia Panizza- an amazing collection of essays

#book recs #tudors #renaissance