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David M Rubin
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Stories, poems, essays, photos. Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses, +. Love the bits of discourse. www.six18sfoundry.com
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · Dec 21
My collection of previously published stories, Junk Birds and other stories has become!

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3 birds (myna pigeon sparrow) in silhouette on border between olive brown & cream color fields. Junk Birds and other stories by David M. Rubin
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When the competition is densely ignorant of humoral pathology.

Middlemarch. Eliot’s narration omniscient & credited, mixed, or neither. An American pluralism(!) & she sure seems to enjoy owning these views along with her characters
of enviable homage. If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue; he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
February 1, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Belle du Jour 1967 Luis Bunuel starring Catherine Deneuve. 4 shots of CD turning her mind to wood to work out the inconceivables. Brilliant film & a perfect vehicle for her.
Woman w blonde hair and brown jacket in back seat of car. Framed to allow her to own the interior as a glass blocked Paris is outside CD w hand on head thinking deeply in a bathroom w Morandi like blue and pink bottles & elegant vases sit on sink CF w black coat and caftan looking down deep in thought in front of red & grey building CD lying back thinking inside a coffin (!) w flower halo. Bouquet on stomach. Eyes wide open. Subtle to no expression
January 31, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog w Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale & many Peruvian Amazonian locals as filmed on location
Opera House standing O. Looks like à la Scala etc… Kinski and Cardinale standing in back Looking up at 2 men on rocks w waterfall behind A man in white linen making a speech near a victrola on a small table. Outdoor patio area w checkered floor. Wait staff and a few guests look on Man rowing at dusk on a river w shacks in back ground
January 31, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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acoustic Judas Priest doing Joan Baez’ Diamonds & Rust i.e. how I imagine karaokeing this.

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Judas Priest - Diamonds And Rust (acoustic) Live at Slavi show, BTV 17/06/2004
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February 1, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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Me eating lunch in the work cafeteria & at the holiday party
Kinski w muffed white/blonde hair eating rice w Peruvian Amazon tribe members w bows and arrows standing behind him Now they play flutes around him. He has no idea why .
February 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Fitzcarraldo steamship in the film & remains of the real one. We went to that exact area to see giant otters (!) & knew it was there but can’t remember seeing it. (Will dig out old photos & report back)
Steamship white and refurbished cruising in Peruvian Amazon area. Not sure if river is Amazon or Madre de Dios The iron remains of the steamer of the real Carlos Fitzcarrald, in Madre de Dios Region. In jungle. Photo: Dr. Eugen Lehle
February 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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What would you hold above the waves in a general wreck of society?
(George Eliot would be a great follow on Bluesky). Middlemarch of idea'-tell me again what that means, Ben." (Mrs. Garth, like more celebrated educators, had her favourite ancient paths, and in a general wreck of society would have tried to hold her Lindley Murray' above the waves.)
January 31, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Fred Vincy… no no no… George Eliot pondering malignant prophecy
Middlemarch basket on arm. Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry-the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy— "Such as I am, she will shortly be."
January 31, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog w Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale & many Peruvian Amazonian locals as filmed on location
Opera House standing O. Looks like à la Scala etc… Kinski and Cardinale standing in back Looking up at 2 men on rocks w waterfall behind A man in white linen making a speech near a victrola on a small table. Outdoor patio area w checkered floor. Wait staff and a few guests look on Man rowing at dusk on a river w shacks in back ground
January 31, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Big patterns & small (wonderful) people in Kiarostomi’s Life Goes On. 1990 Iran. And it’s still going on
2 tiny figures walking atop a mountain w grass & scrub and blue violet sky 2 kids on Rocky mountain pass. Beige and Grey sand & rock and blue sky Man on mountain pass putting up tv antennae to watch World Cup Ruined building which is someone’s house. Looks like Pompeii or fresco. Greens and blues and sandy stone. And a lantern in doorway
January 31, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Directed by Jacques Demy starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. Music by Michel Legrand,
January 31, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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L'Eclisse (1962) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni starring Alain Delon and Monica Vitti.
January 31, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Rest in peace, Grady Demond Wilson
(Lamont from Sanford and Son)
To this day, Sanford and Son will always hold a special place in my heart as one of my favorite shows. 💔🕊️📺
January 31, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Hello Claudia. This is Werner. I have a part for you. Love interest Kinski. Filming in the Peruvian Amazon.
Man in white linen suits Stras hat and elegant woman w hair pulled up making request of a theater guard to be let in. Not going well Klaus Kinski & Claudia Cardinale Fitzcaraldo Herzog Now she is smiling
January 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Belle du Jour 1967 Luis Bunuel starring Catherine Deneuve. 4 shots of CD turning her mind to wood to work out the inconceivables. Brilliant film & a perfect vehicle for her.
Woman w blonde hair and brown jacket in back seat of car. Framed to allow her to own the interior as a glass blocked Paris is outside CD w hand on head thinking deeply in a bathroom w Morandi like blue and pink bottles & elegant vases sit on sink CF w black coat and caftan looking down deep in thought in front of red & grey building CD lying back thinking inside a coffin (!) w flower halo. Bouquet on stomach. Eyes wide open. Subtle to no expression
January 31, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Venus antagonizing Athena
Gorgeous flushed nude blonde woman lying face down on a bed (Severine played by Deneuve) lifts and turns over her shoulder and saying to the older “wiser” woman: What would you know, Pallas? (Athena the Goddess of wisdom often called Pallas Athena)
January 31, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Yes!!!
Woman w blue sleeveless dress holding pen. Zoomed to newspaper w crossword. Sub title "Carried his father on his back" Six letters. Belle du Jour Bunuel Catherine de Neuve in red reading a book answers to woman in blue: "Aeneas," with A-E at the start. For the record, not bragging, but I blurted it out first
January 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Holy moly! Shostakovich Concerto 1 for piano & trumpet is wonderful! Even much Happy Shosti
Pencil & marker Shostakovich w short hair and glasses serious. tagged a Stalinist etc but the truth poured through his brain into music despite all the horrors. THE TRUTHIS THAT THE WAR HELPED BEFORE, ALL suffered ALONE 6 18 for perfect DnD guy
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Ok yeah I get the start of the Trojan War.
Catherine Deneuve w blonde hair pulled under black caftan sort of hat walking deep in thought in concrete and building of Paris Bunuel Belle du jour Looking at CD we see Helen of Sparta. Thinking with CD we see HD’s Helen in Egypt. Extraordinarily unique actress
January 31, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Weight lifting & nap training to excel as an audience member at this weekend’s PSO & Yannick’s Rite of Spring & Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto
Pen sketch of man folded arms w glasses & mustache , not much chin Stravinsky, sketched by Picasso, 1920
January 31, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Seong-Jin Cho takes a bow after performing Shostakovich' First Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony

#SanFranciscoSymphony #SFS #MusicSky #Shostakovich #Seong-JinCho
January 25, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Big patterns & small (wonderful) people in Kiarostomi’s Life Goes On. 1990 Iran. And it’s still going on
2 tiny figures walking atop a mountain w grass & scrub and blue violet sky 2 kids on Rocky mountain pass. Beige and Grey sand & rock and blue sky Man on mountain pass putting up tv antennae to watch World Cup Ruined building which is someone’s house. Looks like Pompeii or fresco. Greens and blues and sandy stone. And a lantern in doorway
January 31, 2026 at 3:10 AM
six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Holy moly! Shostakovich Concerto 1 for piano & trumpet is wonderful! Even much Happy Shosti
Pencil & marker Shostakovich w short hair and glasses serious. tagged a Stalinist etc but the truth poured through his brain into music despite all the horrors. THE TRUTHIS THAT THE WAR HELPED BEFORE, ALL suffered ALONE 6 18 for perfect DnD guy
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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🐦‍⬛ crow #oilpainting #art #sketchbook
January 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Weight lifting & nap training to excel as an audience member at this weekend’s PSO & Yannick’s Rite of Spring & Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto
Pen sketch of man folded arms w glasses & mustache , not much chin Stravinsky, sketched by Picasso, 1920
January 31, 2026 at 1:01 AM