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Father: If you're going to associate with intelligent people, you're going to have to remember that "still" is a noun and not a verb...
...three volumes of his Actuelies 23 essays he wanted preserved English. Sadly, actuelie is one those words that cannot be Its literal meaning is or "contemporary", and it notes as well "immediate", "near hand", "timely". It is an and as translator O'Brien in his introduction, the of the noun is for ambiguity...
Rembrandt's a Noun. Rothko worries a good deal about the notion of image. " 'Rembrandt' has become a noun," says he, "a noun that conjures up a particular kind of painting. 'Rembrandt' has become an image." So, indeed, in a smaller way has Rothko, and this automatically places a limit on his striving toward the limitless. To Rothko, almost everything depends on the viewer's being able to approach a painting as a pure and unique experience, for which he should not be prepared. The impact of color, the electric shimmer of an edge...
...parodists still living the most brilliant is deVries, whose only serious weakness is his suspicious fluency. One feels that he could write ten sequels to The Tents of Wickedness in a year, and that hardly seems fair. But "Requiem for a Noun" has a lovely beginning: The cold brussels sprout rolled off the page of the book (by Faulkner) I was reading and laying inert and defunctive in my lap. Turning my head with a leisure at least three-fourths impotent rage, I saw him or rather the reverse, the toy the fat insolent flet and then above that...
...asked to write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according to the haphazard intersection of curves on a piece of graph paper. Then he asked the performers to write on 20 cards "a noun or verb or combination of both with which they would care to associate themselves." When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with "carry fish" and "hit piano strings," what would be more natural than to whop the piano with a frozen carp...