Well, UBU has had one busy (but profitable) week, children, so you’ll have to be content with an entry emptying out the old quotebag. I will say that, as I’ve written before, LAURA LIPPMAN’S new book What the Dead Know is the real deal, a great book, and that she herself is a wonderful, brilliant and very nice personage. I also note that the book is now already in the 6th printing, so if you can get a first of it UBU recommends you pick it up as an investment opportunity. But on to the received wisdom:
Here inbred careerists from the land of Lilliput take the high seat, while the giants are forced to jostle just to get inside the door.
It was as if their crazy relationship, or rather their amazing shared ride in her macabre old bed, had pushed him into a landscape where the old, familiar value scale was no longer applied. She made love for her life with a heat that exceeded all human behavior, as if life itself was the shared movement of their bodies.
– from The Cruel Stars of the Night by Kjell Eriksson
Klimt, after all, was preoccupied with one theme: the female, mysterious and even frightening, yet a perpetual source of exquisite delight.
Actually there was only one motif: the magic thrill a man experiences on seeing a female in the nude.
– from Gustav Klimt: 100 Drawings by Alfred Werner
Who called out many a secret oracular cry
To initiates on Eluesis’s shore
As she escorted the priest through
The Rharian field in Demeter’s honor
She is famous even in Hades
– Hermesianax
A Leak In The Safe 