May 22, 2005
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The Shining
of Friday the 13th
From Margalit Fox in today’s New York Times:“Eddie Barclay, who for three decades after World War II was arguably
the most powerful music mogul in Europe and inarguably the most
flamboyant, died on [Friday] May 13 in Paris. He was 84….… Mr. Barclay was best
known for three things: popularizing American jazz in France in the
postwar years; keeping the traditional French chanson alive into the
age of rock ‘n’ roll; and presiding over parties so lavish that they
were considered just the tiniest bit excessive even by the standards of
the French Riviera….Among the guests at some of his glittering parties… Jack
Nicholson….”
Related material:“Joyce’s confidant in Zurich in 1918, Frank Budgen, luckily
for us described the process of writing Ulysses…. ‘Not
Bloom, not Stephen is here the principal personage, but Dublin itself…
All towns are labyrinths…’ While working…
Joyce bought a game called Labyrinth, which he played every evening
for a time with his daughter, Lucia. From this game he cataloged
the six main errors of judgment into which one might fall in seeking
a way out of a maze.”– quoted by Bruce Graham from The Creators by Daniel Boorstin
“We’ll always have Paris.”
– An Invariant Feast, Log24, Sept. 6, 2004
