homegrown

first tomato from our yard

one of my favorite things

sartre and simone

At the Sorbonne, Sartre liked to shock his fellow
students. At one dance, he turned up naked; at a
university ball he paraded a hooker in a red dress.

But when he met the beautiful, young Simone he was
entranced. She was as intelligent as any man, and,
similarly disenchanted with her bourgeois family,
she shared his fascination with the Paris underworld.

After their finals, in which he passed top, and she
second (though the examiners agreed she was strictly
the better philosopher and at the age of 21 the
youngest person ever to have sat the exam), Sartre
proposed marriage.

Simone refused - not for any philosophical reason
but because she was sleeping with one of his best
friends.



For 51 years, the conversations between them created
ideas, books, and a bond which other passions enraged
or enriched, but never altogether ruptured. It was,
for De Beauvoir, an experiment in loving of which
"existentialism" was the child.

"What we have," he said early on to De Beauvoir, "is
an essential love; but it is a good idea for us also
to experience contingent love affairs."

There were no children. They never shared a house,
though for much of their life and certainly at the
last, they saw each other daily.

In their own words, she and Sartre enjoyed "The
advantages of a life together and none of its
disadvantages".




Always pushing new boundaries, they explored their
thoughts in novels, plays and philosophical works.

De Beauvoir's discriminating mind was crucial to
the development of Sartre's thought - she made
sense of his phenomenological confusions in
L'Etre et le néant, she read and edited his
manuscripts, she even wrote articles for him to
publish under his own name .

It earned Sartre the world's greatest literary
accolade, the Nobel Prize.

Yet he refused to accept it because he thought it
would make him an establishment figure and thus
silence his inquiring mind.



De Beauvoir became the mother of the modern
women's movement with the publication of her
book, The Second Sex.

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
Everything I have read, seen and learnt over
the last thirty years has confirmed me in this
idea. Femaleness is manufactured in the same
way as masculinity, virility, is manufactured."



The Americans did not take to Simone as they had
to Sartre. They disliked her drinking, they mocked
her clothes and they noticed her faint whiff of
body odour.

She, in turn, disliked the bland faces of American
women who did everything they could to please their men.

'I am awfully greedy,' she wrote. 'I want everything
from life, I want to be a woman and to be a man.'



Sartre died six years before Simone. And so she
wrote her nihilistic epitaph for the tomb they would
ultimately share, ensuring their Godless creed would
go down in history. 'His death separates us, my death
will not reunite us,' it read.

words mishmashed and pasted from the following:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jun/10/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/12/bosey112.xml
http://www.wieninternational.at/en/node/6600
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-559137/Dangerous-liaisons-sex-teens-The-story-Sartre-Beauvoir-told-before.html

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read - fat girl: a true story by judith moore

The List:

Books Read In 2008
-Fat Girl: A True Story by Judith Moore
-Skim words by Mariko Tamaki, drawings by Jilian Tamaki
-Blood and Soap: Stories by Linh Dinh
-A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
-Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
-Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina
-Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
-The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
-The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman


Books Read In 2007
-Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way: A Novel by Bryan Charles
-The Road by Cormac McCarthy
-The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
-A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel
-You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan
-Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denimby David Sedaris^
-Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proux-
-Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore^
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
-My French Whore: A Love Story by Gene Wilder
-Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor
-Noone Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
-The Day to Day Life of Albert Hastings by Kaylynn Deveney and Albert Hastings


Books Read In 2006
-Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir by Lisa Crystal Carver
-Trout Fishing In America by Richard Brautigan
-Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
-Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
-Winning Ways by Dick Lyles
-The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
-Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan
-The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing by Richard Brautigan
-Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
-So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan
-Ida by Gertrude Stein
-The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
-Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
-Ask the Dust by John Fante
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
-The Stranger by Albert Camus

Books Read In 2005
-The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
-Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
-In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
-Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader
-Women by Charles Bukowski
-A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
-Living On Luck: Selected Letters 1960s-1970s Volume 2 by Charles Bukowski
-The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut
-Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
-The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
-You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
-Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
-A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
-Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña by David Hadju
-A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
-Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris
-Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan
-The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

Books Read In 2004
-A Widow for One Year by John Irving
-Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson*
-Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
-Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
-Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac
-Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
-Love Is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
-Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
-Journals by Kurt Cobain*
-Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
-Modigliani: Portraits by Fernand Hazan
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
-Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
-Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashares
-Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
-Tarantula by Bob Dylan
-Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath*
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel
-Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger*
-Sarah by J.T. Leroy
-The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
-The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. Leroy
-Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson
-Sloppy Firsts by Megan Mccafferty
-Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dali
-Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
-Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
-Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
-Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
-Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
-Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
-Hell's Angels by Hunter Thompson
-Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
-The Yage Letters by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery*
-Bring Me Your Love by Charles Bukowski
-The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
-Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
-The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation) ed. by Mark Eleveld
-Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
-Junky by William S. Burroughs
-Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
-One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
-A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
-High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
-An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
-The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle

^ audiobook* reread

tagged

i'm back from vacation and in the process of
uploading photos and giving the store much
needed attention, but for now here's my seven
songs which shay tagged me to do:

The rules: “List seven songs you are into right
now. No matter what the genre, whether they have
words, or even if they’re not any good, but they
must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping
your spring. Post these instructions in your blog
along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people
to see what they’re listening to.”


1. harry nilsson - many rivers to cross
2. the glands - fortress
3. link wray - i sez baby
4. prince - when you were mine
5. ray charles - busted
6. van morrison - and it stoned me
7. bob dylan - i don't believe her

packing

kitties helping me pack for vacation

vacation reminder

our first sunflower

pop star

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little book

from OK Words.
c.1971
thrifted @
goodwill by
the lb.

to the beach

worn - june 20, 2008

dressing like a waitress
while not a waitress.

suspender pants - canvas
shirt - bitten by sjp
black jazz shoes - some nyc discount store

+(4) 8 things -(4)

+ next week: charleston vacation and meeting kennedyholmes for thrifting
+ ebay purchase:


+ taking naked photos for yr boy
+ dressing like a waitress while not a waitress


- a broken car for m
- days wasted at desk
- sunshine behind darkened windows
- 2 ton daily grind shoulder weight

virgin suicides stills