being and becoming

"Being and Becoming," June 4, 2022 (#155)

title from "California Dreaming -- Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dunaway" by Guin A. Nance (1991)

Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler (2001)

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925)

Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians by by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons (2006)

Being and Becoming

The honor a man bore when he crushed an opponent

is considerable agitation for revoking altogether the

exciting story about a heterosexual romance rather than one

foreign and religious. Purgatory was a word he could

tangle from the staghorns of the hatrack. Jimmy picked

career-sabotaging headlines about infidelity, divorce, legal trouble

seeing films, correcting essays, and occasionally chatting with

somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing

drowned out by the angry mob's continued protests that the festival

tried every means possible to expend the energies that

smoke a crumbling cigarette, holding a finger over the torn

organizations that started ostensibly as social groups.

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