Untitled (Sheet of Studies) — Jackson Pollock

Study for a Portrait 1952 by Francis Bacon 1909-1992

Watch Hiroshi Teshigahara’s tranquil visual poem, Antonio Gaudí

>CROSSING THE BROOK< | Bottom's Dream

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A little passage from John E. Woods’s English (?!) translation of Arno Schmidt’s enormous novel Bottom’s Dream. The passage is on page 75.

I am not “on” page 75; I am “on” page 28.

My experience of reading the book has so far remained unchanged.

The opening heist sequence of Michael Mann’s film Thief

Anxiety — Edvard Munch

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Sunday Comics

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From Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. I by Hayao Miyazaki. VIZ Media English language edition.

Nude — Egon Schiele

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Gravity’s Rainbow annotations (so far)

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I’ll be adding to these and then doing more the next time (?!) I read Gravity’s Rainbow.

Pages 82-83: The White Visitation, etc.

Page 103: Black Markets, King Kong, etc.

Pages 148-49: Preterite/Elect, Lurianic Kabbalah, Uncanny X-Men, etc.

Page 203: Rainbows, Fuck-yous, Plastic Man, etc.

Pages 204-05: Paper, mise en abyme, a silkenness of girls, etc.

Page 256: “Real America,” Hughes contra Whitman, BANZAI!, etc.

Pages 257-58: The War, nimbus clouds, Zoot Suit Riot!, etc.

Page 299: Tannhäuser, horny expectations, etc.

Page 364: Knights and fools, dendrites and axons, etc.

Pages 412-13:  Ouroboros, organic chemistry, tarot, etc.

Page 419: Innocence, experience, Wm Blake, Wagner’s Ring cycle, etc.

Page 539: Critical Mass, Weismann’s tarot reading, Rilke, hymns, etc.

Crayfish and Two Shrimp — Hiroshige

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Nude — Egon Schiele

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Self-Portrait Standing My Ground — Julie Heffernan

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Nude — Egon Schiele

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A fine, pedantic sunshine (Emily Dickinson)

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Still Life with Mussels and Shrimp –Vincent van Gogh

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Birdsong — Karoly Ferenczy

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