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By prof.kazoo on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 05:47 pm:

    I am such a dork. I love it. Today we saw a presentation on the archives here at Emory, and the women brought out a whole poop-load of interesting things. Everything, personal papers and diaries and political buttons and movie posters. It was beautiful. I got to see a letter written by Yeats to a woman he was smitten with when she was got married to another man. Yes, I was drooling over that.

    I found out that Erotica/Porn and Playboy and other such publications are there and held under "Rare Books" because that is the category for things that have been published and things that are likely to be stolen, whether they are actually "rare" are kept in there.

    I can't wait to get through all this course ca-ca so I can really start wasting my time in places like this.


By patrick on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 06:11 pm:

    i understand university archives are treasure chests for such things.

    i recently read the book of letters Between Henry Miller and his longtime publisher Jim McLaughlin of New Directions. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, mail was it! so some of the most amazing authors and their benefactors of the 20th century donated their letters and such to university libraries. I think it was UCLA that holds archives of hundreds of Henry Miller letters.

    Was the Yeats letter handwritten?


By kazoo on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 06:41 pm:

    It was handwritten which is what made it so cool. It was part of the woman's papers which are also kept here. Apparently most of Yeats' correspondence was burned.


By patrick on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 06:50 pm:

    pffffffttt

    typical melodramatic poet shit.


By agatha on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 07:23 pm:

    i'm salivating right now.


By Spider on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 08:14 am:

    Yeats, artistic genius that he was, was a complete weenie when it came to love. He made a fool of himself over Maude Gonne, who was on to him and knew he didn't really love her but an idea of her. So what happens? She gets married to another man, has a daughter, about 20 years pass, and Yeats becomes interested in her daughter. She spurns him, like any sensible woman would, and he marries Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom he does not love. And she knows it. So on their wedding night, she holds a seance, because she knows he's interested in spirits and other fey things and wants him to be interested in her, if only for her medium abilities.

    What a mess. However, they did have two children, and Yeats wrote a really beautiful poem for his daugher, Anne. So some good came out of this.


By kazu on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 08:49 pm:

    Langston Hughes: Poet of the People
    Special Collections and Archives

    Exhibition Curators: My friends!!!!!!!

    This was so cool. I'm a sucker for all of this stuff anyway, but it was especially cool to look at Hughes's typed and written letters to friends (he refers to Richard Wright as Dick!) because a lot of my literary research is on African American writers.


    Oh, and on the way to campus, I thought of Antigone, when I saw a bumper sticker that said *Antigone Rising*

    You should put that on your car, tiggy.


By V.v. on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 09:07 pm:

    Antigone rising,I LIKE THAT,...odd thing is,in north London,there is an ice cream van,and on the back it says "Hals ices,simply the best".....Christ,talk about the "twighlight zone"


By V.V. on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 09:21 pm:

    ...not to mention a truck i often see in London,SEM BUILDERS CO. LTD.


By V.v. on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 09:29 pm:

    Plus ERI REFURBISHMENT CO.U.K.---Just cant get away from Sorabjis.


By TBone on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 11:56 am:

    And Bob's Steak House has a sign that says "SPECIAL FRIDAY T-BONE DINNER'S"!


By eri on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:24 pm:

    Are you going to go in and say "I'm T-Bone, so where's my fucking dinner?"


By Spider on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:37 pm:

    I no longer connect "Antigone" with a female name/character. Thanks a lot, dude.


By kazu on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 01:03 pm:

    I'm glad I'm not the only one. Because I really thought of our tiggy when I saw this sticker amongst all their other cheesy lesbian feminist goddess ones and was confused as to why they had it....then I realized what was going on.

    Still ah doesn't like ennyone t'fuck wif mah literary cultural reference identificashun mechanism, thank yoos very much


By semillama on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 06:10 pm:

    I too no longer associate the name Antigone with the female gender, but then, it's not a common Western female name anymore. I doubt I would stop associating the name "Gladys" with femaleness if Anitogne used that as his handle instead.


By J on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 03:22 am:

    Just remembering before Lucy went to Methlehem,I thought Tiggy was a short man from a posting about big truck,little dinky:)


By V.v. on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 08:57 pm:

    Shucks,an there was me thinking "tiggy"was a name for a new born tiger.


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