Catharine Denueve’s diaries, A l’ombre de moi-mꭥ, were published in France last week, creating something of an uproar. Liz Hoggard doesn’t think it’s a big deal, pointing out, along with other critics, that the book is a collection of “food, the weather, wigs and costumes but disappointingly little on psychology.”
Author / DrMabuse
Yesterday’s Definition of Libel is Today’s “Duel of Stories”
Laura Miller: “The ”Opening Skinner’s Box’ controversy looks like a quarrel about facts, but it’s really a duel of stories. Slater’s subjects are saying, in part, ‘How dare you presume to tell the story of us? Now we’re going to tell the story of you!”’
For more on the subject, check out Ron’s Lauren Slater archives, which include comments from Slater herself.
I Don’t Care If It’s Godwin’s Law.
Nader Prepares for Football Hike; Team Nowhere to Be Found
The Condition
Taking up Stephany’s challenge:
In this condition: stirred by the twain into a soupon of solicitude; by pinching pennies and damning dollars; by sending purty li’l packages for a pittance; by denying lucre and limning love; by considering clauses to clear in two months and deposits and Type A tyros; by maintaining a half-true smile and sending a courteous note when they offer declarations that seal a sunny door shut; by pounding on these doors and feeling the bruised impact of brick walls; by not giving up and planning pirouettes in one fell swoop, the dim light of a borderline fall from grace dappling upon my shoulders, the nutty Kenny Rogers sixties song in the back; by anything which upgrades current beta test into something rosy and spurting; by anything darn tootin’, notwithstanding the frigid fingers icing my warmth, fools unwielding muzzles and cashing blood in at the bank; saying no to anything that cuts down my soul, dodging rash motions of machetes, the jaws of crocodiles; saying no even when they hear yes, clearing the brine and chastity belt, keeping spry; anything warm and equal, any hinterland where no one gives a dam, allowing rivulets to burst and grand dreams to happen.