Handles (like mirrors and seat belts) seem to come and go on the Flagstons’ car(s). Does the absence of handles prevent us from entering the enclosed space of the Flagstons? Or does that absence bespeak, rather, a Sartrean “no exit,” the family defined, almost tautologically, as a network of always-inescapable presence?
“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right I turn around and I give it one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
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Not to mention a whole new color.
They had a blue car earlier this month too. It’s too much for one person to track.
It would be a struggle to install a car seat in August's car. No door handles. And November's car doors apparently open like French doors.
Good catch on the French doors!
Handles (like mirrors and seat belts) seem to come and go on the Flagstons’ car(s). Does the absence of handles prevent us from entering the enclosed space of the Flagstons? Or does that absence bespeak, rather, a Sartrean “no exit,” the family defined, almost tautologically, as a network of always-inescapable presence?
Or more pretentiously, “a Sartrean no-exit.”
That's wonderful, Michael. Somewhere in America, a desperate graduate student just found his or her dissertation topic.
French (French!) doors alone could be a chapter.
If the second picture is a minivan with a sliding door, that is, in fact, where the handle would be placed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minivan
It looks like a Volvo wagon to me, but as it’s Hi and Lois, who knows? :)
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