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    Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    I think the piece you are looking for is titled "New Orleans" and is in book of essays called Portraits and Observations and can be read in the Google Book thing in its totality...and it is brilliant--especially the smashed cola caps shining like dimes on the street.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    Love the "Dearest"- may have to begin each comment or interaction IRL with same.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    Oh my gods - could anyone be more fake?
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    05/15/09

    @Diziet_Sma: He talked like that all the time. Reading his letters is like listening to him speak. I love watching footage of him on old talk shows.
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    05/15/09

    @DramaClub: Yeah, I know. But he was also notorious for being a two-faced bitch!
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    05/15/09

    @Diziet_Sma: But what a fun bitch he was. :)
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    05/15/09

    @DramaClub: True, true :)
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    Also, anyone who has not yet read Gerald Clarke's Capote is missing one of the best biographies ever. I have read it to the point of virtual memorization.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    Also, I love all the "Really, darling, I envy you mightily" talk. Sounds like writing Holly Golightly dialogue wasn't such a stretch for him.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    They forgot that third footnote:


    3. Capote had last been to a beach in 1941. That year, 14 separate waves knocked him down.

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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    I would totes be butt-buddies with young Tru BTW.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    San Simeon is such a tacky pile of rubble.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    So this is basically the oldschool equivalent of a drunk text.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    All I have to say is I learned all I needed to know about the Hearst Corporation from Disney's "Newsies"
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    05/15/09

    @Ladies and Gentlemen-Mr. Burt Bacharach: and Citizen Kane!
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    05/15/09

    In reply to Harper's Bazaar Historically Shitty To Freelancers
    Alas, no one writes letters like that anymore. In fact, no one writes letters anymore.
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    05/15/09

    @depardoo: Oh, come on. What about holiday letters to your family and friends, which you mimeograph?
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    05/15/09

    @depardoo: I actually do write letters like that still. Just sayin'.
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    05/15/09

    @BadUncle:


    Ah, the mimeograph machine! I just got a great olfactory flashback.

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    05/15/09

    @HiredGoons:


    How many "darlings" and "sweeties" do you use?

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    05/15/09

    @depardoo: I'm more in the habit of calling people 'a caution.'
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    05/15/09

    @BadUncle: I get them from people who alternate between referring to themselves in first and third person, misplace apostrophes, brag about their GD kids and moan about how "busy!" they are. I HATE THOSE LETTERS.
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    05/15/09

    @depardoo: Heh, I actually write emails very much like that -- but only to a select handful of friends, who return in kind. And it's not like you start off that way; you begin writing like a normal human, and then as the correspondence goes on you mutually evolve into more florid prose. It's fun.


    Though the point about instant communication is a good one; I suspect the reason I developed the Capote-esque style was living in a different time zone, and being forced to long letters because the people I wanted to talk to were asleep. It'd probably never have happened if they'd been a phone call away.

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    Image of TRexstasy TRexstasy
    05/15/09

    @HiredGoons: Me too me too! And no one ever writes me back!!


    We should correspond!

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