“Time and again one discovers that Didion’s essays are as interwoven as fine cloth and that pulling one line begins to unravel the entire construction. That’s what we call fine writing.” We review #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem: wp.me/P23AlC-hD
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A sign…San Francisco
My Christopher Robin wandered away.
He called April 10th
But he hasn’t called since
He said he was coming home
But he hasn’t shown.
If you see him on Haight
Please tell him not to wait
I need him…
If he needs the bread
I’ll send it ahead.
The Power of Poetry with things falling apart and anarchy let loose, it was only poetry, he found, which had any use, so he reached for his copy of The Complete Works of Yeats and bludgeoned the President of the United States --Brian Bilston
Brian Bilston's stuff gets old for me but this one.....this one I like. #slouchingtowardsbethlehem
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#JoanDidion
first time I had dealt directly and flatly with the evidence of atomization…been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed…it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder.
Why should people in #advertising know the work of #JoanDidion? Because at her heart she is a journalist of the first order, and her beat is America. We review #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem: wp.me/P23AlC-hD
First foire with Didion, and I couldn’t help but wonder, was she the first to embody complicated funny girl summer? #ajlt #satc #iykyk #complicatedfunnygirl #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #booksky #bskybookclub #litsummer
Why #JoanDidion is one of the key members of the #newjournalism school, and why #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem is a terrific place to see why. Our review: wp.me/P23AlC-hD
#AmericanAutocracy
#GiftAriticle
#Trump’s Newest Crackdown on #Dissent
BS] Assault charges against a #Democratic member of #Congress look more like #intimidation than [#law enforcement.
#Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #law #democracy #UnitedStates #Constitution […]
Well, as Yeats said it's the worst of us who have passionate intensity. The best lack all conviction. #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (Penguin, 1979, Reprint). #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem #JoanDidion #1970s #book #books #paperback #PenguinBook #PenguinBooks
I’ll mostly be working all weekend, but when I get a chance, I’ll be disassociating with Didion. Your weekend plans?
#joandidion #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #essay #selfcare
"It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." — Joan Didion, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM
“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse….” ✍🏽 📚 🗣️ #LosAngeles #JoanDidion #CaliforniaWriters #BookSky #2025LosAngelesWildfires #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
(7/20)
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#Literature
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#WeTellOurselvesStoriesInOrderToLive #TheWhiteAlbum #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
will wood phone art part 2 #willwood #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #willwoodfanart #willwoodandthetapeworms
Sad week doodles of my fave musical artist. Since youtube keeps reminding me I was right next to a venue for the tour but couldn't go, my usual musical reprieve isn't working.
slouching towards somewhere but the fuck if i know
#willwood #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #doodles
Werd vanmorgen wakker met de laatste zin van 'The Seond Coming' van W.B. Yeats in mijn hoofd:
'And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=1boA... #JoniMitchell #slouchingTowardsBethlehem #PlaatjesDraaien #Muziektip
