Bull's-Eye
On this date in 1961,
Ernest Hemingway shot
himself.
The Talented Patricia Highsmith
"Yes, oh, God, Robin was beautiful. [….] A sort of first position in attention, a face that will age only under the blows of perpetual childhood. The temples like those of young beasts cutting horns, as if they were sleeping eyes. And that look on a face we follow like a witch-fire."
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Related material:
The Languages of Addiction,
Ch. 13: The Barnes Complex
See also
The Garden of Eden.
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