Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Rupert Pole, featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955
I come from down in the valley, where, mister, when you’re young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done… Me and Mary we met in high school, when she was just seventeen, we drive out of this valley…
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | The River
—The River Tour, Tempe 1980[ID: a series of gifs of bruce springsteen singing “the river”. it is dark and he is lit in yellow which gradually changes to pink. the camera slowly zooms out. he sings: “down to where the fields were green / we’d go down to the river / and into the river we’d dive / oh, down to the river we’d ride”. /end ID.]
Two women napping on an 11th St. fire escape to catch a cool breeze on Aug. 30, 1948.