WORDS
les mots = les maux
what differentiates humans from most animals; prime source of
self-agrandisment before less articulate creatures; formulated into ideological
systems for which people kill and die; primary beneficiary = special interests
Antithesis: Silence!
A rule suggested to me when I began constructing
this web page: "use few words and many links" to which I respond
in true Nietzschien fashion with the attached text with many words and only
one real link some place hidden like a needle in this verbal haystack of
disjointed comments that reflect my own limited attention span. Needless
to say, they can be sckimmed or bypassed. If you happen to be afflicted
with verbal dependencies, you may wish to get your fix on a few of these
English hieroglyphs. To my non-English speaking friends, consider yourself
lucky and go to the good stuff.
Photos by BIRON:
Recent texts: (May 22, 1996):
Pre-publication review of Truman Capote's serialized
novel, ANSWERED PRAYERS. When this article appeared in the Spring of 1977,
Esquire magazine had published the following four installments: "Mojave"
(June 1995), "La Côte Basque" (November 1975), "Unspoiled
Monsters" (May 1976), and "Kate McCloud" (December 1976).
Biron interview by Philip Vincent (1995):
Part
I: The Invisible Closet: on
Coming Out as a Photographer.
Part
II: The 1970s Revisited: Biron
on Robert Opel, Camille O'Grady, Jerry Dreva, Robert Maplethorpe, Gronk,
Teddy, Jorge Caraballo, Clemente Padin, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, and
others.
BERT - the autobiography of Egbert Pettey
(1895-1981) as told to Biron. The life and times of the flamboyant Hollywood
designer recorded on video-tape in San Francisco shortly before his death
in 1981. Unpublished 300 page manuscript filled with stories, anecdotes,
scintillating gossip, memorabilia and old photographs.
chapter
2: "Jamestown, ND: The Opera
House." Bert's early days in North Dakota where he met the leading actors
on the road at the turn of the century.
Chapter
7: "Hollywood: The First Ten
Commandments (1923)." Bert's experiences
working as an art director on one of C.B. Demille's epic silent movies.
The
Sense Behind the Dada Nonsense PH.D. Dissertation proposal on
the philosophy and poetry Tristan Tzara, Department of Romance Languages,
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1973.