Jean Louis Lassez: portraits of hospitality

Catherine & JL,  May ’68  “Vivre sans temps mort!”— the last of the Situationists! Catherine & Lib Muleshoe.  First,  the ranch: Muleshoe headquarters/Lassez’ house Unloading guns Holiday crowdCatherine & Libby again A Yale med school grad and a guy retired from running an  Ohio Audubon refuge (Vince DiMarco , the late Pepe, and  John Wilson). …

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Jean Louis Lassez — RIP

My friend  Jean Louis  Lassez died last week at his Muleshoe Ranch, after a long illness .In the usual course of things I would have known he was not doing well; we were close despite our seemingly disparate  backgrounds. Or maybe not so disparate—we were both Catholic school kids,  ambivalent about ‘Old Mother Church’,  but …

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“Dystopian Science Fiction”?

When  Malcolm Boyd (Painted Horses, Cloudmaker) saw the article ” All You Can Read” by Parul Sehgal in the November 1 New Yorker , his reaction was  “It reads like dystopian science fiction!” Further: ” .., the book ( his recent Cloudmaker)did not garner a single meaningful review in any significant outlet, nor did Grove …

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Good Quote

“I prefer a simpler and less fashionable version, which admits that a badger has a real sense of self, and real pleasures that it judges as outweighing its pains. Badgers are philosophers. They have an idea of the Good Life, which presumes there is a self that can lead that life. This is a self …

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Jean Louis Lassez – RIP: apology

Sorry — I have not been present for days. Not entirely my fault: between the effects of having no meds for a week and a severe attack of rheumatoid arthritis in my foot, and the continuing absence of any kind of secretary, I have not been up to doing much. In the next few days …

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Scout , RIP

Patrick Porter  (the best  writer you have never read)  on “The best bird dog east of the Mississippi”, Scout,  from Berwick, Maine.   It didn’t go unnoticed that all the orange maple leaves had fallen on our lush green grass.  Above us….above my entire family after the sun had set, a million stars showed their …

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