tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post5782121494431984808..comments2024-03-25T22:21:09.417-04:00Comments on A Brooklynite on the Ice: Reading: Gone by Steve FitchThey say it's a cold worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09059089212388940864noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-48529425834635325692008-12-11T21:54:00.000-05:002008-12-11T21:54:00.000-05:00Hello Richard,Excellent entry to make us, on this ...Hello Richard,<BR/><BR/>Excellent entry to make us, on this wet, almost-winter day of collapsing markets, think of history and storytelling as the objectives of phototaking. Made me pull a book off the shelf:<BR/><BR/>From the preface, by Warren Susman, to Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip:<BR/><BR/>Writing over a hundred years ago, Hippolyte Taine congratulated those fellow historians who had prceded him for making "the first step in history: leading to a "revival of imagination" through a reconstruction of the past, no matter how incomplete, that enabled them to "see approximately the men of other days." In a particularly brilliant passage he now urged the taking of "the second step": using what the eye can see, "the visible man," to discover "the man invisible," or that center that is "the genuine man"....<BR/><BR/>Or the genuine construct.<BR/><BR/>Warm congratulations on your Walking to Guantanamo! Sorry I missed the reading.<BR/><BR/>Very best,<BR/><BR/>Ann (Another Red Hook resident, we've crossed in pathing; I am sequestered with my own travel book.)Ann Neumannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13690469764844904030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-3492069750396706112008-12-09T16:31:00.000-05:002008-12-09T16:31:00.000-05:00beautifully evocative writing ... makes me want to...beautifully evocative writing ... makes me want to<BR/>see Fitchus' pitchusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com