Futuristic Movie Timeline (via danmeth)
Ok. Now this is just HANDY. Kind of like those measurement conversion charts people have in their kitchen. How many teaspoons in a cup? How many years until I go for a virtual vacation and memories of the planet Mars come to me, ultimately causing me to visit?
In 1921 Eliot left the manuscript of The Waste Land with Pound, and Pound went through it with his red pencil. He thought it was a masterpiece. And why should its author not go on writing such masterpieces? Well, he was working as a clerk in Lloyd’s Bank in London and didn’t have the time. Pound decided to free him. He organized a subscription plan called “Bel Esprit.” The idea was to find thirty people who would chip in fifty dollars each to help support Eliot. Pound chipped in, as did Hemingway, Richard Aldington, and others. Pound threw himself into it, hammering the typewriter, printing up a circular, sending out a stream of letters.
from The Gift.
Damn.
