tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post5195048588391418729..comments2023-05-09T10:08:19.397-04:00Comments on towards a future tome: books and windows Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-68350270356670255312013-09-17T19:54:30.463-04:002013-09-17T19:54:30.463-04:00Beautiful. The photos. This leaping into the liv...Beautiful. The photos. This leaping into the lives of others is a theme in your work. Makes it interesting because it can't be done. MtsMichael T Stowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883980637574300365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-67271110081699511532013-09-15T09:54:13.426-04:002013-09-15T09:54:13.426-04:00i am laughing, erin :-) then there must be three c...i am laughing, erin :-) then there must be three categories of people: those like you, who only want to be themselves, and nothing else, then those like James, imagining and wanting to be something/someone specific, which bears significance for their life vision, and then those like me, probably the most idiotic category (i can only hope there are not many here) who have wanted to be _anything_ and _anyone_, from being a leaf, a bird, to being anyone imaginable, to live all other lives, experience all forms of existence :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744287536426329556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-40969641517623333132013-09-15T09:51:00.754-04:002013-09-15T09:51:00.754-04:00you knew this book, and it was so important to you...you knew this book, and it was so important to you!!! :-) i should have known this, but perhaps i, somehow, knew :-)Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744287536426329556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-63954756970073304082013-09-08T14:39:22.346-04:002013-09-08T14:39:22.346-04:00with the greatest shock (and perhaps embarrassment...with the greatest shock (and perhaps embarrassment) i realize that when i was young i only wanted to be myself, poor, imperfect, and although at times only barely alive, alive nonetheless. strange.<br /><br />how intoxicating to stand in this space together, in this light, and to breathe books and desire, together, together))))<br /><br />xo<br />erinWoman in a Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14747858840088922077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-70249851251054389162013-09-04T11:51:40.542-04:002013-09-04T11:51:40.542-04:00i can't think of a better image of paradise th...i can't think of a better image of paradise than a vast and well stocked used book store:-) used books are so much better than new books. of course, i can't afford new books, but even if i could, i would prefer used ones, because they are living things that breathe like the people who have owned them<br /><br />i love <i>a moveable feast</i> -- a sacred scripture about youth and art, especially the earlier chapters, which i find to be some of the cleanest, purest prose anyone has ever written. when i was young, i desperately wanted to be hemingway and to live in paris in the 1920's and write and drink in cafes and love beautiful women and speak french and know writers. that's nothing special, i know -- doesn't everybody who is young want to be hemingway and live in paris? but i still want it all :-)<br /><br />. James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511463081418566771.post-14968486113375218072013-09-04T09:09:12.353-04:002013-09-04T09:09:12.353-04:00this is a used bookstore in the center in Ravenna,...this is a used bookstore in the center in Ravenna, the owner a very distinguished old lady speaking a lovely french, and the windows did indeed give unto the inner court of the building, as in the Hemingway quote...Roxanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744287536426329556noreply@blogger.com