Report from the Interior (34 page)
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Authors: Paul Auster
“Perhaps you understand the peculiar nature of the subterranean attitude. It is absolutely uncaring, absolutely ready to meet any challenge, to suffer any consequences. It is beyond worry, beyond exhilaration, beyond boredom.”
“… so we finish off the misadventure with sandwiches at Ratner’s.”
PHOTO CREDITS
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Felix the Cat in “Oceantics,” Pat Sullivan Cartoon
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“The Window Washers,” Paul Terry Cartoon
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“The Window Washers,” Paul Terry Cartoon
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“Felix in Hollywood,” Pat Sullivan Cartoon
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Haywood Magee/Moviepix/Getty Images
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Picture Collection, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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Baseball Boy
by Guernsey Van Riper Jr., illustrated by William B. Ricketts
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Ten Seconds to Play: A Chip Hilton Sports Story
by Clair Bee
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Mansell/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
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National Archives and Records Administration
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© CORBIS
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Henry Walker/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Photo courtesy Ron Ramirez,
Philcoradio.com
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Photo research by Laura Wyss and Wyssphoto, Inc.
NOTES
Two Blows to the Head
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
. Released by Universal Pictures, April 1957. 81 minutes. Director: Jack Arnold. Writer: Richard Matheson (based on his novel). Producer: Albert Zugsmith. Cast: Grant Williams (Scott Carey), Randy Stuart (Louise Carey), April Kent (Clarice), Paul Langton (Charlie Carey), Raymond Bailey (Dr. Thomas Silver), William Schallert (Dr. Arthur Bramson), Frank Scannell (Barker), Helene Marshall (Nurse), Diana Darrin (Nurse), Billy Curtis (Midget), John Hiestand (TV Newscaster), Joe La Barba (Joe the Milkman), Orangey (Butch the Cat), Luce Potter (Violet). Music: Irving Gertz, Earl E. Lawrence, Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein. Cinematographer: Ellis W. Carter. Editor: Al Joseph. Art directors: Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt. Costume designers: Jay A. Morley Jr., Martha Bunch, Rydo Loshak. Makeup: Bud Westmore. Hair: Joan St. Oegger. Props: Floyd Farrington, Ed Keyes, Whitey McMahon, Roy Neel. Sound: Leslie I. Carey, Robert Pritchard. Sound effects: Cleo E. Baker, Fred Knoth. Optical effects: Everett H. Broussard, Roswell A. Hoffman. Special photography: Clifford Stine.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, November 1932. 93 minutes. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Writers: Story by Robert E. Burns, Screenplay by Howard J. Green and Brown Holmes. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Cast: Paul Muni (James Allen), Glenda Farrell (Marie), Edward Ellis (Bomber Wells), Helen Vinson (Helen), Noel Francis (Linda), Preston Foster (Pete), Allen Jenkins (Barney Sykes), Berton Churchill (Judge), David Landau (Warden), Hale Hamilton (Reverend Clint Allen), Sally Blane (Alice), Louise Carter (Mother), Willard Robertson (Prison Board Chairman), Robert McWade (Ramsay), Robert Warwick (Fuller), William Le Maire (Texan). Cinematographer: Sol Polito. Editor: William Holmes. Art director: Jack Okey. Costume designer: Orry-Kelly (gowns). Conductor: Leo F. Forbstein.
Time Capsule
1
. Not the same Quinn who became the protagonist of
City of Glass
but another Quinn, who in fact was an early version of Fogg, the narrator of
Moon Palace.
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Young Törless,
by Robert Musil.
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. The grown-up Lydia would go on to translate
Madame Bovary
and
Swann’s Way.
The grown-up Paul would go on to edit an anthology of twentieth-century French poetry—in which Lydia appears as one of the translators.
4
. Almost certainly a reference to your last name, which means
south wind
in Latin.
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. “They’ve overstepped all the limits.”
6
. Refers to one of Heraclitus’s best-known fragments: “The way up and the way down are one and the same.”
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. “But monsieur, in the bag like that I thought it was garbage.”