"Baudelaire was a dandy, especially in ruin," Calasso observes characteristically, evoking him at 32, walking too cautiously, for fear of widening the rips in his clothes.
He almost never mentions the president's name, but evokes him nonetheless by promising: "I won't always be the most exciting politician, but I will work hard for you every single day, and I will never let you down".
George often used to conclude conversations by saying, "It's all interesting," which I did for a while, too, after he died, because I was confident that it was a cool thing to say, something that couldn't be refuted, and because it was a means of evoking him.
The editorial evoked him to give his endorsement of the steps the newspaper is taking: "He would caution us not to worry about the form The Capital Times takes, but rather to be concerned with the content and character of our message".
The supporting cast works well with the movement, and the only questionable choice I see is that of having one particular character appear in the flesh when Fae has been masterfully evoking him throughout.
MR: I wonder what it is about Harry Nilsson that people keep evoking him, using him as a source of inspiration, and citing him as one of their influences though Harry--with the fifteen or so albums that he had--didn't seem like he was one of those artists that was, at the time, considered as important as he ended up being.
In "Morning, Paramin," Derek Walcott's free verse dilates upon the places that Peter Doig's paintings evoke for him.
His pictures are honest in the sense that they reflect how he sees images and the feelings they evoke in him.
