Winter In Art [autumn]

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“You have to remember that I’ve been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you’ve been lonely long enough you don’t realize you’re cold, but you are … I don’t know, maybe at the center of me there’s some ice that never will melt, maybe it’s just been there too long. But you mustn’t worry. You didn’t put it there.”

— Larry McMurtry, from the novel The Last Picture Show (Dial Press, 1966)

"I offer my dinner guest, after dinner, the choice between regular and decaf coffee, when in fact I don’t have any decaf in the house. I am so sincere in my effort to be a good host that I lie; I think this probably happens all the time in poetry.

You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that."

—Mary Ruefle, from "Kangaroo Beach" in Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012)

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: November 28. Have written nothing for three days. END ID]

Eartha Kitt during her performance at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, 1961.

Ben Stahl’s illustrations for Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.

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