Tuesday, May 13, 2008

I Am Jack's Aching Nostalgia: Source Material for Dumb Puppy

I've been thinking about the idea of nostalgia lately - the idealization of the past or the longing for home.

Oops. Marshall hit a key and this posted too soon. Chaos has erupted.



Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses / those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. - Richard Ford




An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. Provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. - Robert Hughes

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice – there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. - David Cassidy

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? - Andy Warhol

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