tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post2098212352738766140..comments2022-01-21T18:03:18.183-08:00Comments on THE CHAGALL POSITION: Beckett Pilgrimage IIIEdmond Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-69713306554979105352009-01-23T10:24:00.000-08:002009-01-23T10:24:00.000-08:00Edmond,A superb collection of photographs, and som...Edmond,<BR/><BR/>A superb collection of photographs, and some nice recollections. Thank you for sharing.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>RhysRhys Tranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17324349620090364098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-46734004466674336062008-10-29T19:28:00.000-07:002008-10-29T19:28:00.000-07:008 Craigie Circle, Suite 35, Cambridge, MAHere's th...8 Craigie Circle, Suite 35, Cambridge, MA<BR/><BR/>Here's the website where I found it in case you want to check out just about every place he ever lived or stayed. Just when I think I'm intense...<BR/>http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/homes2.htm<BR/><BR/>And to respond, 1) Thanks! and 2) You know it!Vivian Darkbloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09682875720368516518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-39346249433692771712008-10-29T18:43:00.000-07:002008-10-29T18:43:00.000-07:00Michelle! So cool to hear from you. You'll have ...Michelle! So cool to hear from you. You'll have to tell me where the Nabokov bldg. is so that I, too, can stand pointlessly on the stoop. Two postscripts: 1) Congratulations! 2) Onward to banner #18.Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-12423994407714906852008-10-23T09:29:00.000-07:002008-10-23T09:29:00.000-07:00Dr. Caldwell,I admittedly googled your name in a f...Dr. Caldwell,<BR/>I admittedly googled your name in a fit of Emmanuel nostalgia, wondering what you'd been up to since we both left EC. That being fairly embarrassing, I am also about to admit to my own penchant for literary pilgrimages. When I was in Boston I tracked down the apartment where Nabokov lived while working at Harvard. It was a wholly unremarkable building, but I found it really exciting to stand on the stoop of one of the places where Nabokov lived. Geeky for sure, and ultimately pointless, I felt a connection to the writer whose work I so love. I guess that's the point, really, to stand in the same place and wish you were actually in that literary place.<BR/><BR/>Hope all's well with you,<BR/>Michelle DavidsonVivian Darkbloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09682875720368516518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-16046476284961355762008-10-01T19:43:00.000-07:002008-10-01T19:43:00.000-07:00Thanks for the comment, robert. Yes, Cortazar is ...Thanks for the comment, robert. Yes, Cortazar is there (at one time I was quite obsessed with his novel Hopscotch) and so is Sartre (in death as in life buried with DeBeauvoir) - and also Tristan Tzara and Baudelaire and the ineffably lovely Margeurite Duras! And I have pictures of all of their monuments, which I threaten to post at some future date . . .Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909166734000323323.post-80249290703878200402008-09-30T10:00:00.000-07:002008-09-30T10:00:00.000-07:00I also made this pilgrimage--enjoyed your stories/...I also made this pilgrimage--enjoyed your stories/photos. Funny thing is that my journey there was quite unplanned, just a lark (I had been in Brussels for a friend's wedding and went to Paris for a day), remembering how much I had loved Beckett's work when I was in my early 20s, and then deciding to look for his haunts. I was then 37, and just preparing to go to grad school for writing--ripe for inspiration. Beckett was it (Cortazar, also, who is in that cemetery--a related story; less so Sartre, also there. In any case, those eminent presences were very awe inspiring for me). Standing at Beckett's grave I had an epiphany. Realizing how much this pilgrimage and Beckett's work infused my grad school experience has been a gift for me.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again!Robert Detmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13451775891714123809noreply@blogger.com