Monday, August 31, 2009
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.-Thomas Merton
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dorothy Iannone
Loving this book I picked up @ the New Museum in NY. It includes a booklet of her works, Dorothy Iannone: An Icelandic Saga. These works are illustrations and writings of the time she met her lover and muse Dieter. They are quite lovely to dive into... An outstanding lady who successfully sued the US government for confiscating her copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in the 1960s, her show at the museum is free, so check it out if you are in NY.....A funny snippet from one of her works talking about Allen Ginsberg biting her the first time she met him:
This is the dress she was wearing when she received the bite:
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