Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Side Door


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Person with a migraine headache: photo by Sasha Woolf, 14 December 2008




While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Vladimir Nabokov: from Lolita, 1955




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Pacific Swirl: satellite photo of zone of low pressure approaching California coast, 4 June 2011: photo by NASA

BROMO-SELTZER LIFE 08/02/1937

Emerson Drug Co. advertisement for Bromo-Seltzer: Life, 2 August 1937 (Gallery of Graphic Design)
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5 comments:

  1. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE7 June 2011 at 07:32

    Tom,

    "a few pertinent points [DO] have to be marked" (that "Pacific Swirl" for instance, "low pressure approaching California coast"), so thanks. . . .

    6.7

    sunlit silver edge of cloud above still
    black slope of ridge, crow above branch
    in foreground, sound of wave in channel

    works “mentioned in letters,”
    account of those sent

    makes the passing pass, “it
    was,” there concealed

    grey of clouds against invisible ridge,
    shadowed green pine on tip of sandspit

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  2. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 02:22

    Thanks for "opening up" that passage in Lolita, which I'd forgotten, but now remember clearly. It is remarkable.

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  3. TC9 June 2011 at 07:29

    Mayhap we have each of us at one time or another (if not over and over) heard that crash, felt that rush, and uttered that futile cry into that oblivious whipping wind.

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  4. Robb9 June 2011 at 21:29

    YES

    "bodkings"

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  5. TC10 June 2011 at 00:17

    That side door opened up again tonight, I think, and in blew a blast from Vladivostok. The bodqueen must be angry with us again.

    In Australia, the climate change scientists are receiving death threats.

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