my woman is the sea.

favorites from the old boys’ club I: updike (is it me, or does he look at least a little like Cameron in ‘ferris bueller’s day off’ in this photo? I mean, a Cameron who grew up to be unaccountably dapper.)

printedandbound:

“Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

-John Updike