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What Is Beyond Debate About ... S. A. COSBY

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That he is 

a great novelist

is

beyond debate 

 

However,

whenever we learn

someone can do 

something well,

we naturally ask

What else can he do?

 

 

Here is the answer:

Cosby can also write

excellent short 

stories 

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PhotoVerio #1062: Palm Towers

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Newest

Condo Complex

in 

Long Beach 

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PhotoVerio #1061: Something To Be Grateful For

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Naturalism + Pointillism

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+

 

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Dedicated to 

Otto Jensen 

 

He was

—both— 

my California father-image

+

my photography Guru 

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Richard Brautigan ... Poem #814257

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Pretend 

is a city

bigger than New York

+ 

bigger than

all the cities

at once.

 

≈  RICHARD BRAUTIGAN ≈

* 

 

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Rorschach Recruitment Center

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***

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Before + After Roses Were Taken To The Bleach

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Her Name Is ... SHERRY CHINLIPS

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 💗  

💗 

Every night 

since 2019,

 SHERRY CHINLIPS

slept 

against 

the skull

of her

long-dead husband

and

💗loved💗 

every

second

of it

💗💗 💗  

🖤

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Photograph

by

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Quoting From ... CONVERSATIONS WITH KAFKA

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Words are evil's 

strongest buttress.

 

They are 

the most reliable

 preservatives

  of 

every passion 

and stupidity.

*

 

One only 

pretends to be 

enjoying oneself,

stuffing up one's ears

with the wax

of pleasure.

*

 

I simulate gaiety

in order to

vanish behind it.

*

 

A man is only

fully aware of himself

when he is 

either in love

or 

danger of death.

 *

 

We live in

a morass of 

corroding lies

and illusions,

in which

terrible + monstrous

things happen

which journalists report

with amused objectivity

and

—without anyone noticing—

trample on the lives

of a million people

as if they were

worthless insects

[Gregor Samsa Society?]

 

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≈  FRANZ KAFKA  ≈

 

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Great + Glorious Foresight From ... Bard Of Baltimore

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H. L. MENCKEN

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PhotoVerio #1060: The Shopping Cart Sadie Twins

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Quoting ... H. L. MENCKEN

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Imagine 

the Creator

as a low comedian

and

at once the world 

becomes

explicable

*

 

Nature abhors a moron

*

 

The greatest artists

of the world

are never Puritans

and seldom respectable.

No virtuous man

has ever painted

a picture

worth looking at,

or 

written a symphony

worth listening to

or

a book worth reading

*

 

Love is the triumph

of imagination

over 

intelligence

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H.L MENCKEN 

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Midnight Staring Contest On My Patio

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Someone started 

a staring contest

on my patio

 

I think I won but the prize is TBD

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PhotoVerio #1059.5

 

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Tilted 1968 Poem + Source On Next Page

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