Fernando Pessoa, from a prose fragment, in The Selected Prose, ed. Richard Zenith (New York: Grove, 2022).
See also William Carlos Williams and Wallace Shawn.
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[Pessoa wrote in English, French, and Portuguese. He wrote this fragment in English.]
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
“There is for me—there was”
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Wallace Shawn's line about the cigar shop in New York reminds me of Paul Auster's screenplay "Smoke," which features a cigar shop in Brooklyn. It's the same point, I think: We've got to pay attention.
ReplyDeleteI love that movie. Auggie’s photography is another form of attention to the so-called ordinary.
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