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These drove his sense of alienation to the edge of madness: "What flowed from my pen at that point-an octopus with eyes of flame, a twenty-ton crustacean, a giant spider that talked-was I myself, a child monster." He also gradually became aware that he was very ugly, "a toad," walleyed, short, "not quite a dwarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pen Is Not the Sword | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...deserves. Thus man is absurd, but he must grimly act as if he were not. The books and controversies were yet to come; but at the end of this confession, filled with self-loathing though incapable of self-pity, Sartre dryly admits: "For a long time, I took my pen for a sword; I now know we're powerless. No matter." There will be more books. "What else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pen Is Not the Sword | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...have a long-felt desire to have a girl pen-friend from U.S.A. But, how to get an address of a girl from these was a great question to me for several months. Fortunately I got your address from the magazine "Look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eastern Question | 10/6/1964 | See Source »

With earnestness, I request your honour to kindly give me an address of a girl so as to make myself have a pen-friendship with her. With unshakeable faith in your mercy on me, I am writing to you this humble letter from India. Please help me. Aysnefnanam

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eastern Question | 10/6/1964 | See Source »

Frottage. Recently, Rauschenberg has stopped incorporating objects into his work. He uses images of them from newspapers, color comics and magazine pictures. He squirts lighter fluid on the pictures, presses them on his drawing paper, and transfers the images by rubbing on them with an inkless ballpoint pen-a technique called frottage. For big oils such as Tracer, he uses the silk-screen stenciling process to print photographs that strike him. "I feel it's so wasteful not to use the images you find around you," he says. In 1960 he finished 34 delicate frottage drawings to illustrate Dante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Most Happy Fella | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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