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a random collection of passages I highlighted in some of my James Purdy books:
from Eustace Chisholm and The Works
The very night Amos moved into the rooming house, the mystery of Daniel was revealed—he turned out to be an incurable sleepwalker. … In the feeble hallway light, he saw someone standing on his threshold. The man advanced toward Amos with his eyes open, but the expression in his pupils were so changed that Amos did not at once recognize his landlord. Daniel came directly to Amos' cot, sat down in the manner of a regular visitor, lifted the boy's head casually, touched his hair and, leaning over him close enough for Amos to feel the warmth of his breath, said, without expression or feeling, “Promise me you'll want to stay.” A few seconds after saying this, he rose and returned to his own room, having closed the shell of a door behind him.
That had been two months ago. Hardly a night now went by that Daniel did not return, with words and actions nearly identical to those of his first night's visit. Amos knew that his nighttime caller was as different from the daytime Daniel Haws as a dream is from every day reality. Amos remembered a description Cousin Ida had given of sleepwalkers: "People who walk in their sleep don't remember a thing, especially where they have walked."
from Eustace Chisholm and The Works
"I want to tell you something, Carla," he yawned.
She went over to him and put some pomade on his burned arm. "I'm listening, sweet," she said at a sigh of impatience from him.
"I'm not a writer, that's my news, never was, and never will be," he told her. "Furthermore you don't think I'm a poet and I know I'm not," he finished.
"I don't care what you accomplish, if anything." Carla pressed her head over his... "All I ever cared about was you."
Staring at her dumbly, he stirred, pulled her head down toward his mouth, covered her neck with silent kisses and then slowly, like all the sleepwalkers in the world, took her down the long hall to their bed, held her to him, accepted her first coldness as she had for so long accepted his, and then warmed her with a kind of ravening love.
from Eustace Chisholm and The Works
"I can't get you off my heart and mind for I feel you are too young to be living in that wicked great place, with nobody to guide you and the people you write about, precious, are too old and wordly-wise, too lacking in lovingkindess to be good examples."
from 'Why Can't They Tell You Why?'
"Give me those pictures!" she shouted, and she seized a few which he held in his fingers, and threw them quickly in the fire.
Then, turning back, she turned to take the candy box from him.
But the final sight of him made her stop. He had crouched on the floor, and, bending his stomach over the boxes, hissed at her, so that she stopped short, not seeing any way to get at him, seeing no way to bring him back, while from his mouth black thick strings of something slipped out, as though he had spewed out the heart of his grief.
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interview with James Purdy
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/james-purdy#_
SV: What were your first experiences of television like?
JP: Well, you know, I was teaching school in Wisconsin when television came into its own, and I was so poor then that I didn't have a set, and so I never really saw television.
SV: But, do you remember the first time you ever saw a television?
JP: Yes, I do. I went to Chicago to visit some friends, and it was snowing, and I thought, "What is that strange light?" It was quite late at night. And in this store window was a television set going. And you heard no sound, and there was no one on the street, and there was the snow falling and this strange phantasmagoria of visions. I felt everyone was dead except this machine, and that it would go on forever, and no one would look at it. Except the snowflakes, perhaps.
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http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2012/02/object-theatre-vegard-vinge-and-ida.html
production of The Wild Duck w/ Eloise Mignon
super creepy but pretty amazing German fever dream type production of The Wild Duck by Vegard Vinge & Ida Müller
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best of Kareem Campbell
Kareem Cambell doing his patented trick 'The Ghetto Bird'
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WHITE FLAME CAME OUT TODAY!!!
Lil B - Neva Switch "I think Im Kareem Cambell cuz I never switch"
Lil B - Im Fabio "bitch suck my dick, I can't believe it's not butter, I'm Fabio"
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Bjork on Colbert Report
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