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Yoho! Tom Pinch is in London (1046).

The key-bugle, 1037-9.

Matthew inverts social order with Mark (1032).

As a girl growing up in OC, D. Keaton was reading Life magazine and noticed the long shadow between Sophia Loren’s breasts. She later learned the shadow had a name: “cleavage” (124).

“Sharp” & “jolly” (1032).

“More corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man” (1021)!

“Home” is an incantation (1020).

America, The Phoenix (1018).

Disregard of small obligations leads to disregard of large obligations, Martin says of Estadounidenses (1000).

Does “jolly” mean “ironic”? (985))

The complexity of Mark Tapley‘s “vain, regret and good resolve” (978).

Chollop warns Mark he’s too “cute” to last in freedom (973).

Old World-New World dispute (970).

“Not worth mentioning” the guns and such. Ha, such satire (970)!

So says Hannibal Chollop to Mark Tapley (966-970).

Shooting someone for exercising his freedom of the press feels free (969).

“Freedom to thug” (968).

Oops 966.

Freedom requires preparation? Is subjugation preparation? (996)

Mark Tapley is Mr. Co. (964).

The “justice” of jolly-bad: Mark Tapley’s Blues (963).

“Size 10” is a sweet chapter about fashion (esp footwear or lack there of) and DK’s love of her son Duke. Somehow through the craft of description and collision, this SoCal woman gets my imagination in all ways & just slays me (74).

“Size 10” is a sweet chapter about fashion (esp footwear or lack there of) and DK’s love of her son Duke. Somehow through the craft of description and collision, this SoCal woman gets my imagination in all ways & just slays me (74).

Long list of idioms using “eye”: take the red-eye, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, don’t bat an eye (although “don’t blink an eye” or “in the bat of an eye” work for me$.

“beauty is a bouquet gathered in loss” (63).

Marie-Laure’s father is the locksmith for Le Jardin des Plantes: the National Museum of Natural History, which includes four museums, laboratories, warehouses, greenhouses, gardens and the menagerie (36). Rilke wrote “The Panther” there.

“Reading is seeing, too,” writes the woman who won an Oscar (60). On page 9 she wrote that seeing was the gift that keeps giving.

Keaton re-tells the story of Dave Garland poking her bra. In Then Again, the story dramatizes how having a mother to commiserate with mattered to young D Keaton.

Still life attempt to capture something, literally a moment, and sustain that thing in captivity. Motion photography is moments added and multiplied until they equal scenes, which add up into “Acts,” which are approximations of life.

Keaton’s gallery of men’s commodified faces challenges me to interpret women’s faces. My freshman year of college, working for the campus police escort team, I meditated on what rape implied. The Accused challenged audiences and hearing about childhood friends who had been attacked made the challenge personal (21).