“Everyone has an anthropology,” wrote Walker Percy, right on the money as usual. “There is no not having one. If a man says he does not, all he is saying is that his anthropology is implicit, a set of assumptions which he has not thought to call into question.”
James Parker, The Twee Revolution, The Atlantic
Now this is what I call a teacher — the teacher happens to be Toole’s biographer.
Good find — H/T Edmund Neill
Below, my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces of music (To the Memory of an Angel)
A snippet from yesterday’s funeral.
My favorite of Shannon’s short stories, probably because it has some philosophical issues nicely woven in. Percy, of course, deployed “what if” devices in his novels and non-fiction:
One can’t read of that [Civil] War without playing the fascinating game of what-if . . . What if Jackson had lived through Chancellorsville? What if McClellan had listened to Phil Kearny (instead of to the Pinkerton detectives) during the Seven Days? What if Jeb Stuart had tended to business at Gettysburg?
Walker Percy, “The American War” (1957) in Signposts in a Strange Land, 1991, p. 74.
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Today 95% of all motion picture content is viewed on a small or personal screen and it is being increasingly programmed, managed and promoted by an entirely new kind of agency – the audience.
The wonderful Historical New Orleans Collection have posted this painting on their Facecrack page.
Louis Armstrong is arguably the most famous New Orleans jazz musician of all time and he continues to inspire musicians and artists. His life and music will be celebrated at this weekend’s Satchmo Summerfest. This impressionistic painting by Jacques van Aalten, a Belgian artist who lived in New Orleans, was created between 1950 and 1970.
There doesn’t seem to be much about Jacques van Aalten online though there are a few shots of him in action.
