Sublime

cholera: in her notebook, ‘Quarry for Middlemarch’, George Eliot noted the appearance of cholera in England in 1831–2.

Dans L’Étranger, Camus s’était inspiré du style des polars américains, dont Sartre et Beauvoir étaient aussi amateurs. Ils aimaient également les auteurs américains inclassables : Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck et John Dos Passos – que Sartre tenait pour « le plus grand écrivain de notre temps508 ».

The man who had been Malachi Constant, who had been Unk, who had been the Space Wanderer, the man who was Malachi Constant again—that man felt very little upon being declared Malachi Constant again.

He urged Anaïs Nin to publish her diaries.

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

My friend the clown and activist Wavy Gravy also tries to change the system, but in a very different style from Lenny Bruce. Wavy once told me he was picketing against the nuclear work at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. The police came to break up the sit-in and he was in a Santa Claus clown costume. They grabbed him, took off his

neo-burlesque shows and began go-go dancing in bars, dressed in a bikini. She also experimented with drugs.