America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can’t ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can’t lose what you lacked at conception.
✖ Via American Tabloid by James Ellroy, New York: Ivy Books, 1995, p. 1

• Aug 05, 2010 link notes tagged: communication  art  novel  author  America  history  community  lost  lack  missing  origin  Eden  innocence  fall  grace  Bible  mythology  foundation  nation  politic  Leviathan  Ellroy  representation 
art photograph photographer beach summer united_states history independence_day 4th_july celebration nation vintage bw
✖ Via

Life – Hosted by Google: Crowd enjoying a hot 4th of July at Coney Island beach. Photo by Andreas Feininger, Brooklyn, NY, US, July 04, 1946.



• Jul 04, 2010 link notes tagged: art  photograph  photographer  beach  summer  United-States  history  independence day  4th July  celebration  nation  vintage  BW 
✖ Via

Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, 2002



• Jul 04, 2009 link notes tagged: film  movie  history  America  nation  politic  patriotism 

skandalon


1 2



ARCHIVE / TUMBLTAPE / RSS / CONTACT / Theme based on D&D