“The rabbi, my lover, is back from Warsaw, so my concentration and self-esteem are destroyed. I wrote mythological poems in ninth grade, and the myth my lover resembles is Orpheus—not that I revere Orpheus, I think Orpheus was a failure and a turncoat, I prefer Abraham for being a semi-literalist about God’s commands. The real heartthrob is Isaac, who, if he were alive now and living in Hoboken or in this tiny town near Hoboken, a town I am devastated to admit is my permanent address, would wear studious gold-framed glasses and would have an unfashionable halo of disordered and frizzy curls; he would play the oboe and be constantly licking and biting and polishing his reeds; and he would treat me disrespectfully.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
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“Fortunately, I did still say yes to some terrific opportunities, such as the chance to play the title role in a summer stock tour of Auntie Mame. To be on the safe side, at my cardiology checkup, I asked Dr. Erica Jones if she thought I had the endurance to undertake the physically demanding role of Mame. Not in the least showbiz savvy, she leaned in with a concerned look. ‘Will you be lifting anything heavy?’ To which I replied, ‘Well, I’ll be carrying the plot.’”
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“That’s something I really enjoy, to kind of stick your brain into somebody else’s brain and figure out how he or she did something. There is a real learning process that is happening there, and it’s how I learned about so much. There is a sort of embodied element to it, you have to actually go through the process, and I think when you do that there is a lot to be gained.”
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“So how did the Japanese save American style? The Americans discarded style as it became unfashionable and moved on to new things. The Japanese collected, analysed and improved it, and sold it back.”
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“Satisfy your mind by responding to your senses. We need to be actively conscious of them and not going about aimlessly in our daily lives.”
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“It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.”
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“In the West, frozen water is simply used to chill and dilute a drink; in Japan it is an active participant.”
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“…the writer and critic David Levi Strauss has observed: ‘One could say that the split within curating – between the management and control of public works (law) and the cure of souls (faith) – was there from the beginning. Curators have always been a curious mixture of bureaucrat and priest.’”
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“The rest were simply repetitions
Of the more notorious. Slim editions: Less practised; less hardened:
Less vicious; less strong:
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Diana once snuck out in male drag to go to the Royal Vauxhall, a famous London gay bar, with Freddie Mercury.
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“Isn’t that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?”
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“I think there’s a real thirst for younger generations to have those kinds of spaces. I think as younger generations maybe look to gay restaurants or gay cafes as possible meeting places, I think that’s also going to bring up interest in the past when those kinds of places were everywhere, at least in gay neighborhoods and also in small towns and medium sized cities as well.”
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“But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.”
