Monday, December 5

Quality reads...

and select cuts:
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"Precious cargo you've got there — too precious to lose." ... "Political and sectarian considerations aside, we human beings need such sustenance." ... "{D]reaming of unlimited possibilities was its own reward."
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"When I first looked at that part of the story, I told Sparky, 'We can't do this, it's too religious.' And he said to me, 'Bill, if we don't do it, who else can?' "
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Impounded (Norton) is a collection of Dorothea Lange photographs of the camps that were originally censored by the Army. ... Impounded simply records without melodrama — there are no crying women, no screaming children. Rather, lots of dignified old men waiting to be put on the bus to the camps; domestic life; and so forth.