Conflicting stories in the killing of William Burroughs wife Joan. Sept 8th, 1951
“Burroughs first admitted, then denied that he was playing William Tell when his gun killed his wife during a drinking party”
Reading Moby Dick symbolically feels like being one of the oarsmen in the Pequod when the whale-line is taut. “For when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a steam engine in full play”
Anyone ever listen to the story about the infinitely deep Mel’s Hole on Art Bell? Mel talks about an ancient whale bone stuck in a tree in Ellensburg. I just found it
It's important if you're painting a night sky with a crescent moon that you resist the temptation to put stars in the dark part - there's still a moon in there. Don't do like NASA did with their early space footage from the 1962 Stargazer mission.