Allen Ginsberg

Reality is a question
of realizing how real
the world is already.

-- Allen Ginsberg, "The Terms in Which I Think of Reality"

up early

Up early. A little after six. A good sleep. But still up early. It's a little warm and it would have been a good morning for a walk, but Pop is away. I needed a shower, debating whether to knock that out first thing. I decided right, and afterward I am wondering why do I debate this. It is always the right answer, to feel clean and fresh. It is worth the ten, fifteen minutes, always. But I forget, always.

Pics

Spider by CarlosSilvestre62 on Flickr.

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Veronica Lake

American actress Veronica Lake (1919 - 1973) wearing a glittering gown for her role as Sally Vaughn in ‘I Wanted Wings’, directed by Mitchell Leisen.

I Wanted Wings is a 1941 American drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ray Milland and William Holden. It also stars Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore and Veronica Lake. Production began in the summer of 1940 at Randolph Field near San Antonio, Texas. The United States Army Air Corps provided 1160 airplanes, 1050 cadets, 450 officers and instructors and 2543 enlisted men for the film. The premiere was held at Randolph Field.

The movie is famous for containing Veronica Lake's first major film role. It is frequently said that she stole every scene she was in and her career took off shortly after. The same year, she was put into leading roles starting with her part in Sullivan's Travels. Lake would become one of the most popular and successful actresses of the early 1940s. [Plot:] Story follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps - a wealthy playboy, a college jock and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer (based loosely on Margaret Bourke-White) and a sultry blonde.

-- Wikipedia

Orangey

I feel bad about chasing off Orangey with a baseball bat, especially after giving some encouragement to her, but I must do what I can to keep my cats from fighting and risking injuries.

Pop is right, though. She is a pretty cat. And I still wonder if she might be Calico's kitten, the one I held in my hands when she was only a few weeks old, the one that even clocked a little time in our kitchen with the other kittens while Calico was out on her rounds.

Casanova and Privileged University Life

This excerpt is stunning for its depiction of the lawlessness of the university students at this time. We are used to understanding students at the better universities as being rather privileged, but this takes it to a whole new level.

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