Saturday, January 3, 2015

last night did....

not travel, tired, but did go to see White Hunter, Black Heart at Walter Reade, outstanding movie, very well written, really one of Eastwood's best---he seemed tremendously invested in it Hard to believe that Huston was such a complete egotist but,,,from everything I read, this is true. Tired, afterward, had a pizza slice, rejected going to a bar, returned home...was this a mistake...? Tired at 9, read a little bit, but then up again with full energy at about 3:30----you know what that means...? Next two hours adventure in imagination,
"debts and sorrows" as Philip Roth calls the first part of Letting Go. Today, will reject another movie, probably take advantage of all afternoon and evening football games and wander around brooklyn, watching them.
Yesterday afternoon, after computer use at lincoln center library, read again Tanner on Richard llL, and then re-read his essay on Hamlet. Really made sense to me this time, covers the whole world of thought and action---tries to define the differences between them---really coherent stuff.
During morning, before leaving for library thought a lot about Sarah's comment last Sunday about 92 year old hispanic woman being harassed out of her apartment in South Williamsburg. What are we doing about it?
what could be done about it/ Should I be on Driggs avenue (or Roebling) handing out fliers decrying this action.  This seems to be the bourgeois "contradiction' (for want of a better word) that we all face. It is easier to sit in a bar "enjoying" football then actively trying to stop the rampant destruction of poor people that gentrification is causing. And yet, nobody likes moving around gentrifying neighborhoods more than I do/?
Well, let's see what the rest of the weekend brings...?

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