Saturday, September 12, 2009
"Streets that follow like a tedious argument..."
Don't ask me why, but T.S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock came to mind when I was taking this picture. These lines, actually:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
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8 comments:
WOW - that poem just kind of says it all doesn't it. Could you have illustrated it better? MAN!!!
Just love that Eliot! Great photo as usual.
Saw a wonderful show last night: Susan Egan and Georgia Stitt, who are both about to have their second children, doing songs about motherhood in a show called All Knocked Up. What fantastic singing and humorous and teary songs. You would have loved it LA!
Wait a minute... I know that street. It looks like the road that leads to the subdivision where I grew up... Nirvana Village.
There's definitely a glimmer of "Touch of Evil" here. I keep expecting an elongated, but still bulbous shadow of a sweaty Orson Welles to appear slowly from the right side of the picture, as a careening, Cadillac convertible roars by and all falls silent again. And then out of the silence comes a forlorn hubcap rolling, rolling, spinning and then clattering to the pavement like a giant hollow penny in slow motion. Back to silence and fade to black.
I can't tell which I love more, the photo or the poem. Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I have to say...my very first thought when I saw this pic was... "oh! Laurie's got a "War of the Worlds" thing goin' on!!!
Anton...love your movie scene...I think I've seen that movie!!!
Anton!!! Wow - I'm captivated by your story and I can sooooo see it. Great idea!!!
You guys are great!
Anton, if you go back into my archives of nocturnal black and white shots, you'll see just how much I love noir.
Mister E, that show sounds great.
Thanks for indulging my love of night prowling with a camera. Til tomorrow...
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