Diary (December 24, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday December 24, 2020.
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The Very Hungry Chifforobe
- Chifforobe @ Wikipedia
Ritchie Boys
The Ritchie Boys were the US special military intelligence officers and enlisted men of World War II who were trained at Camp Ritchie in Maryland. Many of them were German-speaking immigrants to the United States, often Jews who fled Nazi persecution. They were primarily utilized for interrogation of prisoners on the front lines and counter-intelligence in Europe because of their knowledge of the German language and culture.
- Ritchie Boys @ Wikipedia
Notable Ritchie Boys
- Hans Habe
- Klaus Mann
- Oskar Seidlin
- Stefan Heym
- Hanus Burger
- Gerald Geiger
- George Mandler
- Richard Schifter
- Guy Stern
- Vernon A. Walters
- Werner Angress
- Walter Schwarz
- Hans Trefousse
- Alfred de Grazia
- Gilbert de Goldschmidt
- J.D. Salinger
Film
In 2004, the group and its work was the subject of the documentary movie The Ritchie Boys by film-maker Christian Bauer, featuring ten of the Ritchie Boys.
Glass Madame
A sentient glass figurine which owns several specialized bordellos
The Glass Madame Mystery series
Glass Madame Mystery - series of books about the Glass Madame:
J.D. Salinger
Are your stars out?
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion. Never. I'm a little over-excited now. Since it is your religion, do you know what you will be asked when you die? ... I'm so sure you'll get asked only two questions.' Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? If only you knew how easy it would be for you to say yes to both questions. If only you'd remember before ever you sit down to write that you've been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart's choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won't even underline that. It's too important to be underlined.
Salinger on Chaplin and O'Neill
An unintended consequence of the lawsuit was that many details of Salinger's private life, including that he had spent the last twenty years writing, in his words, "Just a work of fiction ... That's all" became public in the form of court transcripts. Excerpts from his letters were also widely disseminated, most notably a bitter remark written in response to Oona O'Neill's marriage to Charlie Chaplin:
I can see them at home evenings. Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead rat. Oona in an aquamarine gown, applauding madly from the bathroom.
TO_DO: The Swinging Thyroids