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She is reading his scribblings aloud as he does her hair,
and it sounds to him like something all unique and full of biblical harmonies
and hard knuckles of truth. He wonders if all writers feel like prophets. He can
feel his ears munching on his own words as she reads them. He can hear himself
roaring and saying things he didn’t know he knew.
—Jasper John, The Holy Book of the Beard
Excerpts
The Altar of the Body
The Book of Mamie
The Holy Book of the Beard
The Law of Falling Bodies
The Willow Man
Too Cool
Duff Brenna at Davy Byrnes Pub in
Dublin during The Willow Man book tour, 2006.
Detail of photo from Jackson’s Books —
see a resemblance to Stevie Ray Vaughn?
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Links Related to Photo
Davy Byrnes
Pub, billed as Dublin’s most famous pub, where James Joyce (and his fictional
character Leopold Bloom) often dined
Jackson’s Books, an independent bookstore located in Salem, Oregon (USA)
Stevie Ray Vaughn,
one of North America’s most electrifying blues guitarists
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