Saturday, September 6, 2008

Don Draper reads Frank O'Hara's 'Meditations in an Emergency' (AMC gave a free episode to Hulu.com from season 2 of Madmen) http://www.hulu.com/watch/28909/mad-men-for-those-who-think-young#s-p1-so-i0

"...
 Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
(and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable
list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with
which to venture forth.
"...
-I can't
even enjoy a blade of grass unless i know there's a subway
handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not
totally _regret_ life. It is more important to affirm the
least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and
even they continue to pass.

"...
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time;
they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and
disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away.
Or again at something after it has given me up. It makes me
restless and that makes me unhappy, but I cannot keep them
still. If only i had grey, green, black, brown, yellow eyes; I
would stay at home and do something.

..."

There is something naked that I like. What's the emergency, Frank?



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