Better Than Friday - 132 (Patreon)

Good morning everyone, all is fine here...Of course, I wish I could say the same for global affairs, but wherever you are, hope your friends and family are safe and well. 

1. An Author born in Ukraine I plan to read more of - Clarice Lispector

She was raised in Brazil, but born in Chechel'nyk, Ukraine. 

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A love story by the great Clarice Lispector that asks: Just how might two people be joined?

Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.”

Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller.

Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”

- Amazon

2. J'aime Paris Au Mois du Mais 

Great performance by the one and only Charles Aznavour. What a drab crowd haha

3. Young Mishima 

Terrific footage/clip of a Mishima interview from Small World with Edward R. Murrow. 

Wish I could find the full interview.

4. Mark Lanegan and Anthony Bourdain

No words needed. Rest in Peace, both of them. 

5. "What I'm trying to say is...Ted Kaczyinski was right"Anybody read Kaczynski's  Technological Slavery?