As noted in yesterday’s writings, it’s the birthday of Death on the Installment Plan Celine. Ditto for (1878) Duncan, Isadora… with what might be an interesting 2002 essay, “Isadora Duncan and the Politics of Modern Dance“, courtesy of Ann Daly of *Centre National de la Danse*. Ditto for Dashiell (Hammett)… partner of Lillian Hellman, both of whom Louis Proyect projects political points onto… as per reflections on a PBS piece; addressing “the whole tangled subject of biography, truth and politics” in the Hellman segment is certainly worthwhile. And both, as per my writing yesterday, provide yet another kind of… “summer read.”