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Madame Bovary meets Hester Prynne

Women are taught to lie shamelessly. An apprenticeship that lasts all their lives. From their first chambermaid down to the last lover who survives them, everyone does their bit to make them treacherous and then they raise a great outcry over it. Puritanism, prudery, bigotry, the whole system of strict confinement distorts and destroys in its prime the Good Lord's most charming creation.~
Gustave Flaubert, in a letter

All Things Considered, March 2, 2008 ·

Hester Prynne, protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterwork The Scarlet Letter, is among the first and most important female protagonists in American literature. She's the embodiment of deep contradictions: bad and beautiful, holy and sinful, conventional and radical.

If you can't give me love and peace, then give me bitter fame
Anna Akhmatova

Sylvia Plath meets ---Helen of Troy

Ennui

Ester Greenwood meets Daisy Buchanan

"All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby,

Page from Plath's copy of The Great Gatsby from HERE

she it.

For my next act it will Be The Magician of Lublin meets Portnoy's complaint.

I don't know women at all, this was all yesterday, how it was fifty years ago. I would guess that women have made some progress since then?

But some things never change, but cultures do. Cultural evolution proceeds much faster than biological, a culture can change within a generation and it does.
They say Plath was not a feminist, she was a proto-feminist. She is my muse I think.



the it girl

Clara Bow, the 'It Girl'Between 1922 and 1929, Clara Bow's vitality and sexiness defined the liberated woman of the 1920s. Clara Bow (1906-1965) became one of Hollywood's brightest lights during this time. Clara was known as 'The "It" Girl'. "It" symbolized the tremendous progress women were making in society, and leading the way was Clara Bow, the girl of the year, who had "It" in abundance. On the set she was full of charm and wit. She was also a thorough professional, and this was asserted by people who knew and worked with her, such as Colleen Moore, Diana Serra Cary ("Baby Peggy") and Louise Brooks.

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/hi ... /cbow.html

interesting picture of Clara Bow. i wouldn't doubt she was the influence for Betty Boop... boop, boop, dee doo.

The problem i see putting women on pedestals, or men, too, if that's your thing, is that a pedestal doesn't have much room to move around nor does a pedestal offer any privacy, something i think all folks enjoy from time to time.

pretty tired
Cecil
maybe that is why you are making too much sense to me right now.
I will read it again in the morning and hope it makes less sense then

going to sleep on it compadre.

sincerely
jt

A little night music from another


Texas Troubadour
The West Texas Hemingway

Billy Joe Shaver

Missing three fingers off his right hand from a saw mill accident, but he sounds ok to me, I suppose being tune deaf has its blessings

Could not find a video for this one

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Man has been to the moon,done 'bout all a man can do
D A
But a woman is the wonder of the world
D G
From her head to her toes man ain't caught what she can throw
D A D
Yes,a woman is the wonder of the world


Chorus:
D E A
Woman is the wonder of the world
E A G A
She may be high society or just a good old fashioned girl
D G
When she was made she pulled the shade on Mother Nature's pearl
D A D
She ain't much,she's just the wonder of the world


Chorus bis:
D E A
Woman is the wonder of the world
E A G A
She may be high society or just a good old fashioned girl
D G
When she was made she pulled the shade on Mother Nature's pearl
D A D
Yes a woman is the wonder of the world

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I like this song too.
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I been to georgia on a fast train
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Live Forever
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Freedom's Child

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Not everyone gets to have backup guitar from Robert Duvall and Willie Nelson

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Honky Tonk Heroes
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This song been covered by everyone from Emmy Lou to Bob Dylan I think

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No Fool Like An Old Fool

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I could stand to loose thirty pounds too. Where is Richard Simmons when I need him?

Cecil wrote last night

The problem i see putting women on pedestals, or men, too, if that's your thing, is that a pedestal doesn't have much room to move around nor does a pedestal offer any privacy, something i think all folks enjoy from time to time.

I think the dead would probably enjoy their privacy too.
At least their daughters.
Plath's daughter Freida Hughes speaks about the movie Wintering based on a novel based on Sylvia Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes .

She is not well pleased, about the Sylvia Plath Suicide Doll Industry that has grown up around her mother.



Freida Hughes is an artist
She painted an abstract landscape of her life in forty five panels
here is one from the series which is titled 2004



You can view the rest of the panels Here

I appreciate the thought provoking comment

Not to worry Cecil. There no room on my pedestal for anyone but me. I still feel guilty about poor Echo. So I solipsize literary dolls.




"I want to do right
but not right now"

Look at Miss Ohio

thanks for the link diana. wild stuff. wish i knew how to embed links like you do.

Super Robot Girl to the rescue

I hope.

she explained it to me

but I can't explain it to you right now

the cat's got my tongue


because I been into the ditch again.

I would just confuse you

But I will try later

I been fooling around with Sal Paradise meets Ester Greenwood on that that queer sultry day they executed the Rosenbergs,
I know I am supposed to kill buddha on the road, jack kerouac too I suppose.


How is that for an absurd premise for a text box ramble.

thanks for taking a flyer here again

sorry about the deletions constantine

I got them saved somewhere just not sure how to put them back.