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When Mapplethorpe starts acting on his desire for men, he and Smith wind down as a couple but continue as soul mates. They move to the Chelsea Hotel, the boho hangout where Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls. To Smith it's ideal, "a dolls house in The Twilight Zone." Does her absorption in her dream of art help to explain why she seems a bit naive about men? It's not just that she never fathoms Mapplethorpe's deepening fascination with S&M. She lives for a while with a member of the '70s arena band Blue Öyster Cult...
...Cass Seltzer, the main character of your book, is seen as an “atheist with a soul.” Do you also see yourself this...
...That’s funny because I never did before, but I’ve had all these interviews and they’ll say, “So you’re the atheist.” What I mean by having a soul is having the capacity for ontological wonder—wondering at existence itself, being overwhelmed by it. I think every artist has got to have soul in this sense and not just artists either—even great scientists do, great mathematicians do. They have this kind of ability to be drawn outside of themselves...
...always found his contributions to the law admirable, and his manifest concern for the plight of the most vulnerable of our citizens made his a beacon worth following," Tribe wrote in an e-mail. "I’m sure his reflections will prove enlightening at a time of national soul-searching and peril...
...Democracy by Ethnicity’ like Sri Lanka cannot not go beyond the policy of communal intoxication and anti-western sentiment. Another example of this reality was the conduct of state media during the polls—they continued to depict the ruler as a pious and pure soul offering prayers in the temples, thus not allowing the average voter to think past the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. These are the exact types of policies that nurtured hate and communal disharmony in every Sri Lankan election leading to several ethnic riots unleashed on Tamils...