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Annotated #PhoneCallFromPaul: with Garth Greenwell

2. veljače 2020.
Photo: Mary Mathis for @NYTimes, 2020

Another Annotated , with A bibliography, httpography, quotography of a great conversation

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Paul talks with Garth about his new book Cleanness

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... and about two exceptional review of Cleanness. The first is Christian Kiefer’s review

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from Paul while discussing with what exactly Cleanness is: "To define is to distrust" - Laurence Sterne "Nothing will fit if we assume a place for it." - Robert Creely

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And Paul & Garth discuss a recent tweet by , which included this quote from Miłosz: "The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person." NB: with a bonus Pessoa quote

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Talking about the 9-sections of Cleanness, Garth brings up his music background, & likens it's form to Schubert's Winterreise. Here's the first soundtrack item:

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Paul adds another quote, by Vincent Van Gogh, as quoted by Mary Oliver “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”

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In a discussion of happiness, Paul brings up two works: Camus's Summer - and Stendahl's The Life of Henri Brulard -

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The Stendahl is the source of one of Paul's favourite quotes: "I had the childishness to speak about my happiness." The source of the happiness is Domenico Cimarosa"s Il Matrimonio Segreto The second item in our playlist:

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The conversation comes back to Colm Toibin. Garth commends to us his 2004 book Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature

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Garth also discusses Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence

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In another fit of , Paul add two more quotes from Adam Phillips: "When we talk to each other, things fall out of our pockets." "We can’t tickle ourselves."

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Garth talks about originality in art, & Paul brings up a recent article about the poet Frank Bidart in :

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The continues with reading a Cavafy poem: The Bandaged Shoulder "... the blood of love on my lips." -->

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Paul replies with his own reading of another Cavafy poem, He Vows "... he returns, forlorn, to the same fatal joy."

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Finally, reads the final paragraph of the second section of Cleanness, "Gospodar"

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