tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post5026715014127711267..comments2024-02-19T20:45:03.110-05:00Comments on Red Mug, Blue Linen : Even Philip Johnson had a television houseLaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-55119381881371960652011-02-15T21:35:26.436-05:002011-02-15T21:35:26.436-05:00I'm glad you enjoyed your read, Bruce, so we b...I'm glad you enjoyed your read, Bruce, so we both had fun. Your comment is a very generous gesture, but you're entitled to the real thing - this, from Liebling's "Between Meals" (1962) - "And yet Dijon and Lyons are little more than a hundred miles apart - a safe distance between sound and unsound cultures in the Middle Ages but an insufficient barrier against contamination since the coming of the motorcar." Growing up from infancy with his magazine, anyone would face influence by the most extraordinary spectrum of voices - what boy would not be Herbert Warren Wind, what girl not Janet Flanner (or vice-versa) - so they could well spill out in little sallies such as this, as infancy is renewed. Even one's mother recalled a girlhood devoted to Mollie "Pants-are-Down." There were such days in that ancien regime.<br /><br />But I must say, I'm especially grateful for your perceiving our heterodox little cast of illustrative stand-in's as creatures of Runyonesque cheek. They needed it, the page needed it, and its readers needed it, to let the silly lot of us be who we are. Mille grazie.<br /><br />Come again, and critique our slice.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-83275417522555061872011-02-15T12:30:47.513-05:002011-02-15T12:30:47.513-05:00First in foremost, what moves me, is the tone of t...First in foremost, what moves me, is the tone of this wonderful "letter;" humorous and inspiring--inspiring? Why? During the time of letter writing, when people still wrote letters, I wrote many and was often told "Bruce, your letters are not letters, they are poems, stories." Yes, inspiring. I thank you for the kick in the rear; so-to-speak. And here we find, in this person's mind, in this "blog" (I have always so detested this word and until recently kept an online "journal" dating back to 1999 rather than a "blog".) Damon Runyan out with A.J. Liebling. Cheers!Bruce Baronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08262814724740244551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-22554278976031765242011-02-15T07:35:10.657-05:002011-02-15T07:35:10.657-05:00Oh, you're extremely kind, BL. Truly, the lode...Oh, you're extremely kind, BL. Truly, the lode of Philip Johnson, alone, runs deep enough to keep us all inspired. :)Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751850602006071202.post-41975235806374375172011-02-15T06:33:35.210-05:002011-02-15T06:33:35.210-05:00THIS is why you should not give up blogging! Laure...THIS is why you should not give up blogging! Laurent, an absolute tour de force which charmed me from beginning to end.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652670896513329236noreply@blogger.com