Comment 13373

By Mark Fenton (anonymous) | Posted October 24, 2007 at 19:49:44

Dude,

Thanks for the interest, but you're way up on me if you're already dealing in Sarajevo rugs...

In terms of finding images in carpets, the story to read is Henry James' 1896 tale "The Figure in the Carpet" in which the narrator becomes obsessed with the alleged figure in a lavish rug and even considers marrying the heiress who lives in the house in which it lies as she claims she'll explicate it's form only to her husband. After I posted this thing it occurred to me that I might have done something with that, but in retrospect it might have made the essay even more overwrought than I fear it already is. I often feel I have Henry James breathing down my back as I write, so there's probably an anxiety of influence there.

On rainy days I still whip the belt off my turntable and listen backwards to Paul is Dead messages on my old Beatles vinyl and it's still kind of chilling and special for me. I've never got around to doing that thing where you sync Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz, but I want to.

Mark

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