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French philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir in Chicago, 1950. 

Nelson Algren’s friend, Chicago photographer Art Shay, had driven Beauvoir to a friend of his who had a bathroom.  He writes: “She had taken her bath.  It was while she fussed at the sink afterward that I had the sudden impulse.  She knew I took it, because she heard the click of my trusty wartime Leica Model F. ‘Naughty man,’ she said.”

The other Art Shay photo is Nelson Algren at the railroad yards in Chicago on a rainy day, 1950.

(Scanned from Tête-à-Tête by Hazel Rowley)

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” … a place of my own to live in, with a woman of my own and perhaps a child of my own. There’s nothing extraordinary about wanting such things… .”

So wrote Nelson Algren to Simone de Beauvoir when he feared that their love affair was, in her words, “doomed to come to an end, and soon.” Neither wanted it to die. Both had plunged madly and sexually in love on her first trip to America in 1947. Their tragedy was that they chose work, and their respective cities over love.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-18-bk-33545-story.html

A relic of Sir John Franklin’s last expedition 1845-48. A bone-handled table knife inscribed with initials of Cornelius Hickley, Caulker’s Mate, HMS ‘Terror’. Hickey was 24 at the time of the expedition and came from Limerick.

The item was obtained from the Inuit at Repulse Bay in 1854 by the Rae Expedition. The Inuit said they had found the material at a camp to the north west of the mouth of the Back River where a party of Europeans had died of starvation.

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littlethingwithfeathers:

May I strive to be like this.

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