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My final read for the #1952Club is not a title I was particularly thinking of picking up for our Year Week, but somehow I ended up being drawn to it. I had, as usual, made a big list of possibilities and this was on it, but I had regarded "Go" as the Big Read of the week and was thinking of something a little lighter to round off 1952.

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/they-all-sat-there-in-another-world-1952club-paulbowles-letitcomedown/

#1952club #paulbowles #letitcomedown

kaggsy59 @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:01 UTC

“…they all sat there in another world…” #1952Club #PaulBowles #LetItComeDown

My final read for the #1952Club is not a title I was particularly thinking of picking up for our Year Week, but somehow I ended up being drawn to it. I had, as usual, made a big list of possibilities and this was on it, but I had regarded "Go" as the Big Read of the week and was thinking of something a little lighter to round off 1952.

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/they-all-sat-there-in-another-world-1952club-paulbowles-letitcomedown/

#letitcomedown #paulbowles #1952club

Juju&Baba&Yoyo🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 21:46 UTC

Juju in the casbah.
After reading The Sheltering Skyhounds.
#greyhounds #sighthounds #dogsofmastodon #paulbowles #tangier #mood

#mood #tangier #paulbowles #dogsofmastodon #sighthounds #greyhounds

Juju&Baba&Yoyo🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 21:46 UTC

Juju in the casbah.
After reading The Sheltering Skyhounds.
#greyhounds #sighthounds #dogsofmastodon #paulbowles #tangier #mood

#mood #tangier #paulbowles #dogsofmastodon #sighthounds #greyhounds

Juju&Baba&Yoyo🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 21:46 UTC

Juju in the casbah.
After reading The Sheltering Skyhounds.
#greyhounds #sighthounds #dogsofmastodon #paulbowles #tangier #mood

#mood #tangier #paulbowles #dogsofmastodon #sighthounds #greyhounds

Juju&Baba&Yoyo🌈 @simmagolda · 2025-01-26 · 21:46 UTC

Juju in the casbah.
After reading The Sheltering Skyhounds.
#greyhounds #sighthounds #dogsofmastodon #paulbowles #tangier #mood

#mood #tangier #paulbowles #dogsofmastodon #sighthounds #greyhounds

Juju&Baba&Yoyo🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 21:46 UTC

Juju in the casbah.
After reading The Sheltering Skyhounds.
#greyhounds #sighthounds #dogsofmastodon #paulbowles #tangier #mood

#mood #tangier #paulbowles #dogsofmastodon #sighthounds #greyhounds

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 00:08 UTC

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#jgballard #drownedworld #pynchon #gravitysrainbow #bradbury #paulbowles

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 00:08 UTC

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#jgballard #drownedworld #pynchon #gravitysrainbow #bradbury #paulbowles

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 00:08 UTC

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#jgballard #drownedworld #pynchon #gravitysrainbow #bradbury #paulbowles

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 00:08 UTC

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#paulbowles #bradbury #gravitysrainbow #pynchon #drownedworld #jgballard

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 00:08 UTC

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

#jgballard #drownedworld #pynchon #gravitysrainbow #bradbury #paulbowles

molosovsky 🐿✊💗 @[email protected] · 2024-07-10 · 23:57 UTC

Mitten im Sommer kam eines Nachmittages ein Hund durchs Dorf gelaufen und blieb gerade lang genug, um einen jungen Mann, der an der Hauptstraße stand, zu beißen.

— #PaulBowles, erster Satz von »Der Fqih« (1974).

#paulbowles

molosovsky 🐿✊💗 @[email protected] · 2024-07-02 · 13:28 UTC

Kif/Haschisch-Redensarten aus Marokko, aufgezeichnet von #PaulBowles in den frühen Sechzigern; siehe Vorwort zu »A Hundered Camels in the Courtyard« (1962; DT. ???).

— Die Augen wollen schlafen, aber der Kopf ist kein Kissen.
— Die Erde bebt und der Himmel hat Angst, und die beiden Augen sind keine Brüder.
—Eine Kif-Pfeife vor dem Frühstück verleiht einem Mann die Kraft von hundert Kamelen im Innenhof.

Entdeckt über Mike Jay »Psychonauts« (2023)

#CannabisKultur

#paulbowles #cannabiskultur

Ben Bristow @[email protected] · 2024-04-08 · 01:58 UTC

(4/4) I’ll end my intro with a cheerful and uplifting quote from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949. It’s too long, so here is a screenshot of text, which feels quite hacky 😑

I didn’t know about the Brandon Lee connection. He planned to use this quote on his wedding invitations, but instead it went on his tombstone. Ugh!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheltering_Sky
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_and_Brandon_Lee_graves_02.jpg

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #todayilearned

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles

Ben Bristow @[email protected] · 2024-04-08 · 01:58 UTC

(4/4) I’ll end my intro with a cheerful and uplifting quote from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949. It’s too long, so here is a screenshot of text, which feels quite hacky 😑

I didn’t know about the Brandon Lee connection. He planned to use this quote on his wedding invitations, but instead it went on his tombstone. Ugh!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheltering_Sky
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_and_Brandon_Lee_graves_02.jpg

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #todayilearned

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles

Ben Bristow @[email protected] · 2024-04-08 · 01:58 UTC

(4/4) I’ll end my intro with a cheerful and uplifting quote from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949. It’s too long, so here is a screenshot of text, which feels quite hacky 😑

I didn’t know about the Brandon Lee connection. He planned to use this quote on his wedding invitations, but instead it went on his tombstone. Ugh!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheltering_Sky
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_and_Brandon_Lee_graves_02.jpg

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #todayilearned

#introduction #intro #krib #bookstodon #literature #paulbowles

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @jackhutton · 2024-01-04 · 10:12 UTC

‘Good-bye,’ says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. ‘We won’t be seeing each other any more.’ ”
—Paul Valêry

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
#bookstodon #PaulBowles #theshelteringsky #paulValêry

#bookstodon #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #paulvalery

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2024-01-04 · 10:12 UTC

‘Good-bye,’ says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. ‘We won’t be seeing each other any more.’ ”
—Paul Valêry

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
#bookstodon #PaulBowles #theshelteringsky #paulValêry

#paulvalery #theshelteringsky #paulbowles #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2024-01-04 · 10:12 UTC

‘Good-bye,’ says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. ‘We won’t be seeing each other any more.’ ”
—Paul Valêry

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
#bookstodon #PaulBowles #theshelteringsky #paulValêry

#paulvalery #theshelteringsky #paulbowles #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2024-01-04 · 10:12 UTC

‘Good-bye,’ says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. ‘We won’t be seeing each other any more.’ ”
—Paul Valêry

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
#bookstodon #PaulBowles #theshelteringsky #paulValêry

#bookstodon #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #paulvalery

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2024-01-04 · 10:12 UTC

‘Good-bye,’ says the dying man to the mirror they hold in front of him. ‘We won’t be seeing each other any more.’ ”
—Paul Valêry

The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
#bookstodon #PaulBowles #theshelteringsky #paulValêry

#paulvalery #theshelteringsky #paulbowles #bookstodon

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 22:20 UTC

I have this weird collection of junky first editions of books because they look wonderfully used. And I read them!!

At today's estate sale - for $2 - a first printing of "The Other Side of Midnight" (by Sydney Sheldon, the same guy who wrote I Dream of Jeannie) without its luxurious early-70's dust cover.

I just love finding books like this tucked away in collections. Nothing around it matched, although plenty of other pop fiction. These things are what catch my eye.

I also have an awesome copy of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Anais Nin's Little Birds, and All The Kings Men (not read yet). Several of and related to Paul Bowles. 💜

#SydneySheldon #PaulBowles #BookCollector

@bookstodon

#sydneysheldon #paulbowles #bookcollector

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 22:20 UTC

I have this weird collection of junky first editions of books because they look wonderfully used. And I read them!!

At today's estate sale - for $2 - a first printing of "The Other Side of Midnight" (by Sydney Sheldon, the same guy who wrote I Dream of Jeannie) without its luxurious early-70's dust cover.

I just love finding books like this tucked away in collections. Nothing around it matched, although plenty of other pop fiction. These things are what catch my eye.

I also have an awesome copy of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Anais Nin's Little Birds, and All The Kings Men (not read yet). Several of and related to Paul Bowles. 💜

#SydneySheldon #PaulBowles #BookCollector

@bookstodon

#sydneysheldon #paulbowles #bookcollector

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 22:20 UTC

I have this weird collection of junky first editions of books because they look wonderfully used. And I read them!!

At today's estate sale - for $2 - a first printing of "The Other Side of Midnight" (by Sydney Sheldon, the same guy who wrote I Dream of Jeannie) without its luxurious early-70's dust cover.

I just love finding books like this tucked away in collections. Nothing around it matched, although plenty of other pop fiction. These things are what catch my eye.

I also have an awesome copy of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Anais Nin's Little Birds, and All The Kings Men (not read yet). Several of and related to Paul Bowles. 💜

#SydneySheldon #PaulBowles #BookCollector

@bookstodon

#sydneysheldon #paulbowles #bookcollector

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 22:20 UTC

I have this weird collection of junky first editions of books because they look wonderfully used. And I read them!!

At today's estate sale - for $2 - a first printing of "The Other Side of Midnight" (by Sydney Sheldon, the same guy who wrote I Dream of Jeannie) without its luxurious early-70's dust cover.

I just love finding books like this tucked away in collections. Nothing around it matched, although plenty of other pop fiction. These things are what catch my eye.

I also have an awesome copy of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Anais Nin's Little Birds, and All The Kings Men (not read yet). Several of and related to Paul Bowles. 💜

#SydneySheldon #PaulBowles #BookCollector

@bookstodon

#bookcollector #paulbowles #sydneysheldon

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 22:20 UTC

I have this weird collection of junky first editions of books because they look wonderfully used. And I read them!!

At today's estate sale - for $2 - a first printing of "The Other Side of Midnight" (by Sydney Sheldon, the same guy who wrote I Dream of Jeannie) without its luxurious early-70's dust cover.

I just love finding books like this tucked away in collections. Nothing around it matched, although plenty of other pop fiction. These things are what catch my eye.

I also have an awesome copy of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Anais Nin's Little Birds, and All The Kings Men (not read yet). Several of and related to Paul Bowles. 💜

#SydneySheldon #PaulBowles #BookCollector

@bookstodon

#sydneysheldon #paulbowles #bookcollector

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @jackhutton · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

“I suspect that a good many people will read this book and be enthralled by it without once suspecting that it contains a mirror of what is most terrifying and cryptic within the Sahara of moral nihilism, into which the race of man now seems to be wandering blindly.”

#theShelteringSky #paulBowles #tenneseeWilliams #bookstodon

#theshelteringsky #paulbowles #tenneseewilliams #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

“I suspect that a good many people will read this book and be enthralled by it without once suspecting that it contains a mirror of what is most terrifying and cryptic within the Sahara of moral nihilism, into which the race of man now seems to be wandering blindly.”

#theShelteringSky #paulBowles #tenneseeWilliams #bookstodon

#bookstodon #tenneseewilliams #paulbowles #theshelteringsky

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

“I suspect that a good many people will read this book and be enthralled by it without once suspecting that it contains a mirror of what is most terrifying and cryptic within the Sahara of moral nihilism, into which the race of man now seems to be wandering blindly.”

#theShelteringSky #paulBowles #tenneseeWilliams #bookstodon

#bookstodon #tenneseewilliams #paulbowles #theshelteringsky

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

“I suspect that a good many people will read this book and be enthralled by it without once suspecting that it contains a mirror of what is most terrifying and cryptic within the Sahara of moral nihilism, into which the race of man now seems to be wandering blindly.”

#theShelteringSky #paulBowles #tenneseeWilliams #bookstodon

#theshelteringsky #paulbowles #tenneseewilliams #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

“I suspect that a good many people will read this book and be enthralled by it without once suspecting that it contains a mirror of what is most terrifying and cryptic within the Sahara of moral nihilism, into which the race of man now seems to be wandering blindly.”

#theShelteringSky #paulBowles #tenneseeWilliams #bookstodon

#bookstodon #tenneseewilliams #paulbowles #theshelteringsky

jackhutton 🇺🇸 @jackhutton · 2023-04-13 · 07:31 UTC

December 4, 1949

An Allegory of Man and His Sahara
By TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Review #nytimes #theShelteringSky #paulBowles #sahara #northAfrica #postwar #bookstodon