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I’ll be your mirror: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 6: ‘The Strategy’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. I’ll be your mirror: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 6: ‘The Strategy’. Are you Nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us! They’d advertise you know! The core of it all was Don and Peggy’s after-hours colloquy on the creative process in Lou’s office, a scene redolent of the classic Suitcase. Aye, there’s the rub. Lou and Pete then, are the homo antecessors. And I am Curious (Yellow). His ‘living in the not knowing’ echoing medie...
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Heaven and Hell: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 12: ‘Lost Horizon’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Heaven and Hell: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 12: ‘Lost Horizon’. Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life? Thomas Mann, Disillusionment. Unsatisfied even by the sea, so craves. Certainly, in this monstrous sublime, the hor...
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Drums Along The Trail: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 13: ‘The Milk and Honey Route’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Drums Along The Trail: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 13: ‘The Milk and Honey Route’. Driving a Model A. He picked up a. A school of fish,. 8220;Where are you. 8220;Anywhere, anywhere. Out of this world! 8220;I’ll go with you. 8220;I have a. There, and I. Richard Brautigan, The Galilee Hitch-Hiker Part 1. Knock ‘em dead, Birdie! This may have been Don’s bye bye to Birdie, his last words to the woman who shot at the neighbou...
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Lay Lady Lay: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 9: ‘New Business’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Lay Lady Lay: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 9: ‘New Business’. Those masterful images because complete. Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,. Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,. Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut. Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder’s gone,. I must lie down where all the ladders start. In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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The life not lived : Mad Men Season 7 Episode 8: ‘Severance’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. The life not lived : Mad Men Season 7 Episode 8: ‘Severance’. From generation to generation. The same things happen again and again. Men learn little from others’ experience. But in the life of one man, never. The same time returns. Sever. The cord, shed the scale. Only. The fool fixed in his folly may think. He can turn the wheel on which he turns. TS Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral. With them they think on? We begin wi...
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The Emptiness is a Problem: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 10: ‘The Forecast’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
https://dogplayingthepiano.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/the-emptiness-is-a-problem-mad-men-season-7-episode-10-the-forecast
A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. The Emptiness is a Problem: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 10: ‘The Forecast’. I die of thirst beside the fountain. In my own country I am in a far-off land. I shiver beside the fire. Naked as a worm, richly dressed in furs. I am full of joy, but find no pleasure. I am strong but lack all force or power. I am sure of nothing but that which is uncertain. I win all but remain the loser. At break of day I say good night. And t...
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Guidance is internal: Mad Men Season 7, Episode 7: ‘Waterloo’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
https://dogplayingthepiano.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/guidance-is-internal-mad-men-season-7-episode-7-waterloo
A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Guidance is internal: Mad Men Season 7, Episode 7: ‘Waterloo’. Of Frigidaire, of. Plane of lunch, of wives. George Oppen, from Discrete Series. In which, in a mid-season climax worthy of an end-of-season finale, we saw the old gang reunite and cement their tribal ties to rout the scheming interloper Jim Cutler, save the company and make themselves millions. It’s a happy ending, isn’t it? To crown it all, there was the m...
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Shrink wrap: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 5: ‘The Runaways’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Shrink wrap: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 5: ‘The Runaways’. Look at you, fooling you.’ Sly and the Family Stone,. You can’t run away from yourself.’ Bob Marley and the Wailers,. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and then fuck your mother.’ anonymous joke. We’re being disingenuous, of course, much as so many of the characters are this week. And it’s largely there that we find the Freud. We’re in familiar. Of cours...
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Sucker Punch: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 11: ‘Time and Life’ | A Dog Playing the Piano
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A Dog Playing the Piano. Digit and Nevada's dispatches from the indifferent universe. Sucker Punch: Mad Men, Season 7, Episode 11: ‘Time and Life’. VIOLA: …They that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton. FOOL: I would therefore my sister had no name, sir. VIOLA: Why, man? FOOL: Why, sir, her name’s a word, and to dally with that word might make my sister wanton. But, indeed, words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them. VIOLA: Thy reason, man? If you wander far enough. Is it true tha...
