silver dishes
“. . . the sight of a table covered with victuals on silver dishes, with glasses ranged in front of each plate, hors d’oeuvre here and there, and a salmon in the middle, made every face beam.”
—Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet, 1881; trans. by A.J. Krailsheimer, 1976.
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Fats Waller
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Lena Horne
clay grates red with heat
“He’d come to sweep the church and check the space heaters and radiators because the cold was on. . . . The heaters were old donated units, probably illegal. The clay grates red with heat. They ran off a propane tank behind the little church. He liked them because you saw immediate hell in them. Hell was loose in the world and it had its colors.”
—Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, 2001.
permanently pale
“He had heard a story of a man, Roy Orbison, who sang so beautifully that he turned permanently pale. He wore nothing but black and dark sunglasses to memorialize his grief over his wife and children dying in a fire. That was a wonderful fate, thought Ulrich.”
—Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, 2001.
Baby Please Don’t Go
your rose pink Cadillac
“Well when you’re sitting back
In your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
I’ll be in my basement room
With a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away”
—Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, “Dead Flowers”, 1971.