Frida Kahlo is the Mount Fuji of Mexico.
Hal
"The more you throw tomatoes on Sopranoes, the more they yell."
--Georges Perec
(attrib. to Unsofort and Tchetera)
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On Aug 11, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> The August 10 entry cuts the insides out of me. "Everything is
> broken." I once went to see my mother in the nursing home. She
> took one look at me and started to cry. What a comment! She was
> younger than your mother but everything was broken far earlier. I
> sometimes think it broke in 1927 and this was 1992. "What's wrong,
> mom" asks the idiot son. "EVERYTHING!" she wails.
>
> Everything was broken. She didn't have your mother's facility with
> words. She had bitterness but no humor to flavor it. No truth
> except in delirium. Flavors of lye and lie, always.
>
> As for Frida on a skateboard, nothing is sacred and maybe that's a
> good thing. I doubt Ms. Kahlo would mind. Mobility where hers was
> robbed from her.
>
> ken
>
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
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