{"id":36698,"date":"2019-11-16T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=36698"},"modified":"2019-11-16T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T19:22:55","slug":"out-of-the-fax-machine-and-into-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/11\/out-of-the-fax-machine-and-into-the-past.html","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Fax Machine and Into the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I was looking over some documents I had stored away years ago. (When you get old you start looking back, as everybody knows who has ever got old.) Well, I came across this fax from my great old friend, the late Carl Weissner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At first I couldn’t place what he meant by “O’s diary.” But then I realized that “O” was a reference to Orton, the playwright Joe Orton, whose plays I admired and occasionally reviewed, and that I had sent Carl this review, which is what set him off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Second Nights Vol. 2<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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from Second Nights, Vol. 2<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It turned out that he ended up using the Raymond Chandler quotation as a motto not for a collection of magazine pieces, which I don’t think he ever published, but for his doomsday-lit novel Death in Paris<\/em>, which he wrote online<\/a> and which was published posthumously in paperback<\/a> and as an ebook<\/a>. Dear Carl, you are missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Death in Paris, 2007<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Notes for ‘Death in Paris’ in one of Carl’s moleskin notebooks. [Photo: JH]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was looking over some documents I had stored away years ago. (When you get old you start looking back, as everybody knows who has ever got old.) Well, I came across this fax from my great old friend, the late Carl Weissner. At first I couldn’t place what he meant by “O’s diary.” But then I realized that “O” was a reference to Orton, the playwright Joe Orton, whose plays I deeply admired and occasionally reviewed, and that I had sent Carl one of them, which is what set him off. As to the Raymond Chandler quotation Carl was thinking of using as a motto for a collection of magazine pieces, it turned out that he used it for his doomsday-lit novel “Death in Paris” instead, which he wrote online and which was published posthumously in paperback and as an ebook. Dear Carl, you are missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"category-theater","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/FAX-from-CARL-Apr_May-1998-750-enh.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9xU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36751,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36698\/revisions\/36751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}