{"id":561,"date":"2009-08-22T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-08-22T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T04:01:13","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-22-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/22\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-22-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 22 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-744\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/ehl-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"ehl\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/ehl-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/ehl.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/strong>: <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[74]\u00a0Cool weather, thank God, but I made the fatal mistake of going to the Kings&#8217; [Harold and Marjorie] at night.\u00a0I paid for it with an asthmatic night. I wish I could develop the art of automatically avoiding the echoes which are the major source of revision in my writing: why couldn&#8217;t I have said &#8220;Kings in the evening&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1950<\/span><\/strong>: Frye&#8217;s account of the day after the night before of drinking with the Thurbers (it involves still more drinking).\u00a0\u00a0He then\u00a0describes a visit to a Catholic church a couple of days earlier, which\u00a0in turn leads to some observations that anticipate the emerging Updikean vision of America in the 1950s. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[564] Sunday we nursed our hangovers and some people came in for yet another drink before lunch. Their neighbors the Lansings came: Mrs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/03\/27\/classified\/paid-notice-deaths-lansing-elizabeth-hubbard.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Elisabeth Hubbard] Lansing<\/a>, who&#8217;s called City, is a writer of children&#8217;s books [pictured above], &amp; breezed in surrounded with her own kids, like a Sistine Madonna. She was at the party last night, and I liked her.<\/p>\n<p>[566] I forgot to say that on Friday Ken took us into one of the most beautiful modern churches I&#8217;ve ever seen. A little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmparish.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic parish church<\/a> dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/14689c.htm\" target=\"_blank\">St. Thomas More<\/a>, with clear glass windows and designs etched on them&#8230; [T]he whole effect was completely serene. I suppose the great appeal of Catholicism in the States today has a lot to do with the sense that the degenerate pseudo-Protestants who ought to be leading the country&#8217;s culture are shaking their nerves to pieces with indiscriminate drinking and fucking and chattering.\u00a0 Well, we got on the train &amp; went home to Boston.\u00a0We went into the buffet car for a snack. Mem: don&#8217;t ever go again into a buffet car for a snack. Swindling the public on food has really got to be a fine art: all eating places are getting assimilated to the supper-dance clip joints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow: in bed with Jane Austen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942: [74]\u00a0Cool weather, thank God, but I made the fatal mistake of going to the Kings&#8217; [Harold and Marjorie] at night.\u00a0I paid for it with an asthmatic night. 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