I read an interesting essay a couple years back about Joyce scholars, and how they have to mollycoddle some grand-nephew of James Joyce (invite him to symposia and let him ramble at length; not publish anything embarrassing etc.) or else they can't get permission to quote from Joyce's works in their scholarship. And how it drove them all bananas, but that there wasn't anything they could do about it.
I think I read Ron Rosenbaum writing about that in Harper's. Stephen Joyce. I read another something about him recently, but I don't remember where. Rosenbaum has also been in touch with Nabokov's son, who is under orders from Nabokov's will to destroy his last, unpublished, not-quite-completed manuscript. He's told Rosenbaum that he thinks it's the best thing his dad wrote, so he can't quite decide what to do about it.
Of course, we don't know the specifics, such as "how long was he sniffing it?"
...So I guess they don't make fruit-smell markers any more? I mean, they all smelled like petroleum underneath, but it was a very watermelon-y petroleum!
Mr Sketch Scented Markers!!
They still make them. We have them here at work. I can haz frooty huffin now?
Blue Line train stuck near Clark/Lake stop: [link]
Font game: 21 of 34
Wow.
I was just guessing randomly, and then gave up....
More than 100 people mobbed the intersection of North Milwaukee and Damen Avenues around 9:15 a.m., jostling for position on the packed sidewalk after a conductor cleared the platform at the Damen stop. Some commuters sat for more than 30 minutes while a southbound train sat idle at the station.
The few taxicabs that passed through the intersection were already taken, prompting exasperated screams from those trying to get downtown.
That's the center of Wicker Park.
Exasperated screams, huh?
Good thing all those passengers weren't trapped in a train with a cougar....
