c.c. o'hanlon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in." – Sterling Hayden [from his non-fiction book, Wanderer, 1963]

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"X often spoke of the truth as if it were a stable, glowing object— something just within her grasp — but she argued for the opposite as well, that reality itself was a shifting illusion, never to be known." – Catherine Lacey [from Biography Of X] https://t.co/SilfbpkcIg

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“I realize that I have left part of myself in a place where I shall probably never come back.” ― Annie Ernaux [from Shame, 1998]

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"I did not decide to be a useless bum for my entire life; I've just become one. I'm not against bums, but I'm definitely a bum." – Peter Beard Morning reading: Graham Boynton's Wild: The Life Of Peter Beard, 2022. https://t.co/uIE5U9rwmt

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(Re)watching Jim Jarmusch's 2016 film, Paterson, featuring poems by the now 80-years-old, Tulsa-born Ron Padgett — one of the second-generation New York School Poets and a friend of the late Joe Brainard.

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@DriftwoodVegans @WhiteRabbitBks Have you read Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music? If not, do.

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"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.” – Sylvia Plath, from The Bell Jar (1963)

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"Three days of squall and rain. The wind moans on the promontory, and all day long the threshing of sea sounds on the white rock outside the house. Trees lean and whirl... "This is the first taste of winter." – Lawrence Durrell, from Prospero's Cell, 1945 [@DurrellSociety]

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Late night reading: The Boy Who Fell To Shore by Charles J. Doane, about the short, doomed life of Thomas Tangveld — son of the late, notorious Norwegian sailor/adventurer, Peter Tangveld — who disappeared at sea in 2014. A précis: https://t.co/kfK6g9aJbU https://t.co/wAayrN95dV

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“I have found God but he is insufficient.” – Henry Miller [from Tropic Of Cancer, 1934]