Rick Barry 📚

@DonPJenn @branwynne It was helpful to me, too. 😀

@RickBarry44 @branwynne Thanks for this.

The Movie 'Hud' was adapted from Larry McMurtry's 'Horseman, Pass By'. The title is from 'Under Ben Bulben', a poem by W. B. Yeats: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

@branwynne @DonPJenn Maybe this is helpful: interestingliterature.com/2020/08/yeats-…

@DonPJenn What do you think it means? I thought it meant to not dwell on the dead? Or maybe that he is bound for eternity? I’m unclear

I went straight home from school to the new house. Though as a grown man I have often stood and looked at the old house, I have never been inside it since that day, when a great many objects that I remember and would like to be reunited with disappeared without a trace: Victorian walnut sofas and chairs that my fingers had absently traced every knob and scroll of, mahogany tables, worn Oriental rugs, gilt mirrors, pictures, big square books full of photographs that I knew by heart. If they hadn't disappeared then, they would have on some other occasion, life being, as Ortega y Gasset somewhere remarks, in itself and forever a shipwreck. WILLIAM MAXWELL, So Long, See You Tomorrow

Riders in Monument Valley, Edgar Payne (1883-1947), Undated

But you knew you were Jewish. No, I knew something. Anyway, my forebears counting coppers our of a clackdish are what have brought me to this station in life. Jews represent two percent of the population and eighty percent of the mathematicians. If those numbers were even a little more skewed we'd be talking about a separate species. CORMAC McCARTHY, Stella Maris

He would never question Professor Lovell, never probe at the empty space where the truth belonged....A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial. R. F. KUANG, Babel

#LosHermanosKaramazov Part I, Book Two, Ch. 4 [The elder] "I am sorry that I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go so far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as onstage, and everyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science." FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov

#TolstoyReadalong ANNA KARENINA (Pt 3, Ch IX) Darya Alexandrovna peered ahead and rejoiced, seeing the familiar figure of Levin in a grey hat and grey coat coming to meet them. She was always glad to see him, but she was especially glad now that he would see her in all her glory. No one could understnd her grandeur better than Levin.

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease.... observing a spear of summer grass. WALT WHITMAN, "Song of Myself" [1.1-5] #WhitmanWednesday

In THE AMERICAN RELIGION (1992), Harold Bloom says our nation’s dominant faith is a form of Christian Gnosticism (he points to Pentecostalism and Mormonism as examples). This American Gnosticism rejects communal faith and embraces a “one-to-one confrontation with the divine.”

#LosHermanosKaramazov Part I, Book Two, Ch. 2 [The elder to Fyodor Pavlovich] "Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov

“If I were only sure that every one would accept me as the kindest and wisest of men, oh, Lord, what a good man I should be then! Master!” he fell suddenly on his knees, “what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” #LosHermanosKaramazov Dostoevsky Pt1 Bk 2 C2

#LosHermanosKaramazov Part I, Book One, Ch. 5 Although, unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five of six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish—such sacrifice is quite often almost beyond the strength of many of them. Alyosha simply chose the opposite path from all others, but with the same thirst for an immediate deed. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov

I got up on my feet. I was as dizzy as a dervish, as weak as a worn-out washer, as low as a badger’s belly, as timid as a titmouse, and as unlikely to succeed as a ballet dancer with a wooden leg. Raymond Chandler The Little Sister C22 Finished. Very entertaining!

What I have been suggesting is that there is more reading today than ever before in the history of the world, and that most of it is of no importance whatever. ROBERTSON DAVIES, "Reading," The Merry Heart

#TolstoyReadalong ANNA KARENINA (Pt 3, Ch VIII) Darya Alexandrovna had done her hair and dressed with care and excitement....Now she dressed not for herself, not for her own beauty, but so that, being the mother of these lovely things, she would not spoil the general impression.