Lumiere

Leon Busy, Young Woman Applying Makeup - Hanoi, Vietnam, 1914-15.
Copyright Musee Albert Kahn.

In 1907, the Lumière Brothers unveiled the autochrome, the world's first system for taking true colour photographs. - Telegraph, UK

Mary Gaitskill on Lolita

From VenusZine, Issue No. 30, Winter 2006:

In one sentence, this book is about: You can't say what any great book is about in one sentence. However, if I could take a verbal snapshot, this sentence might be the negative: Lolita is a bridge between ecstatic dream and broken reality; it is an enchanted bridge beset by mirages and trolls; as the narrator crosses, it bursts into flames behind him; in the end it falls into an abyss.

After reading it, this book made me: better understand the meta-humor mixed with tragedy that happens around us all the time, but in pieces; in the book it appeared before me all at once, like a juggler with a thousand balls in the air.

Music to listen to when reading this: "In Every Dream Home a Heart-Ache" by Roxy Music. Anything by the Tijuana Brass, Britney Spears, or Strauss . . .

You should read this book when: you feel like it.

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You will search, babe, at any cost, But how long, babe, can you search for what's not lost ? Everybody will help you, Some people are very kind. But if I can save you any time, Come on, give it to me, I'll keep it with mine. I can't help it if you might think I am odd. If I say I'm not loving you for what you are, But for what you're not. Everybody will help you, Discover what you set out to find. But if I can save you any time, Come on, give it to me, I'll keep it with mine. The train leaves at half past ten, But it'll be back tomorrow same time again. The conductor, he's weary, Still stuck on the line. But if I can save you any time, Come on, give it to me, I'll keep it with mine.