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What are you reading? February 3, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-02-03  

In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…

I am finished reading:

Clifford's Blues by John A. Williams - The novel of a gay Black blues musician trapped in Germany and sent to Dachau in 1933. Will be taking a look at this novel this coming Tuesday at Black Kos.

Friday, April 14, 1944 You would think if a killer was told, “Stop killing, the cops are coming,” the killer would stop. But no. I think this place, Germany, is like a sanctified church, where the spirit takes hold of one person, then two, three, or four catch it, then the whole church, and nothing stops the dancing, singing, and crying until somebody falls out and cracks his head or everyone’s just too exhausted to move anymore. Sometimes, even the people who’ve fallen out still quiver and shake on the floor. Never liked sanctified churches. Always scared me.

I am reading:

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks 1941-1995 by Patricia Highsmith and Anna von Planta - I will have to go back and edit I don’t know how many WAYR? diaries simply because many of them have the wrong title: it’s 19 9 5 and not 19 5 5.

Finished 1951 and most of 1952. Strangers on A Train is a worldwide success and HIghsmith is in Europe for an extended stay. She’s in a love relationship that turns out to be bad and stifling and it is affecting her work.

2/6/51 ...Arrivals in Paris are never very glamorous.

5/4/51 Rome: the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line. One always describes an arc. It is how the streets are made, how the statues are made, in Rome: Is the Roman character. Or rather, the Italian

8/26/52 The soul— poets, philosophers, and theologians spent lifetimes trying to find out precisely what it is, and where. It is a figment of man’s imagination. He has imagined it, as one man imagined the ghost ship of the Flying Dutchman. Or what use is it to search for it.

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