Today marks the anniversary of Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth. While his creation, Sherlock Holmes, has inspired hundreds of adaptations in many media (in several of which, no one finds it weird that a modern man is named Sherlock Holmes) I think we can all agree that these tributes found their apex in the following theme song.
Warning: this is strangely catchy, oddly stirring, and will stay in your head for the rest of your life.
This is Allen Ginsberg’s reading list for his class, “Literary History of the Beats.” (Yes, he is on it.)
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I feel that the characters in the story already exist in a limbo outside my control, and what I’m doing over the months of gestation is getting in touch with them and learning about them.
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André Kertész: On Reading
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.
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Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.
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“In Theophilus Carter’s case, it could simply be a case of life imitating art.” Mark Davies on the possible real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter.
Manuscript page of John Dos Passos’s novel Midcentury.
A scattering of mind (like rain
flung out small and squalled
against the random panes
attention turns to in its hunt
for some lasting fascination
that will hold its gaze and not allow
a second scene to come and slide
its heart away) is hard to stay
and even harder to abide.—Ben Downing, “The Weather”
Art Credit Heidi Swanson
Along the way accidents happen, detours get taken—the accidents turn out to be some of the best things.
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The Faery Prince. Illustration by Adolf Münzer, based on Ben Jonson’s masque of the same name. From Jugend magazine, 1925.
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