{"product_id":"transcendental-punishments","title":"Transcendental Punishments","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(195, 195, 195);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 10 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGarment Dyed - 6.5oz Black Short Sleeve\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton\u003cbr\u003e*back to the old boxier blanks*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(110, 132, 220);\"\u003ePrinted by Mike's Deli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 86, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/sizechart.png?v=1746031678\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"88\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003eI must speak to you about one more delicate matter. (I don't mind; I'm no longer there to take the rap.) It is obvious that all honours and awards and prizes are nothing but punishments. \u003cstrong\u003eYes, transcendental punishments - but very real.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Golden Lion Venice Film Festival\u003cbr\u003e2. AIA Gold Medal\u003cbr\u003e3. AIGA Medal\u003cbr\u003e4. National Medal of Arts\u003cbr\u003e5. Cannes Palme d'Or\u003cbr\u003e6. MacDowell Medal\u003cbr\u003e7. BAFTA Mask\u003cbr\u003e8. Golden Boot\u003cbr\u003e9. MTV VMA Moon Man\u003cbr\u003e10. Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003e11. Kyoto Prize\u003cbr\u003e12. Nobel\u003cbr\u003e13. Nobel in Literature\u003cbr\u003e14. Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e15. National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e16. Tony Award\u003cbr\u003e17. Rock \u0026amp; Roll Hall of Fame\u003cbr\u003e18. VIZE 97 Award Crosier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTime Magazine Sep 30th 1957:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_9.40.17_AM.jpg?v=1746020581\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003eBeau Brummell perhaps that name is still known to you? He was a famous English dandy - answered a young man who congratulated him one day on having looked so elegant at the Derby: \"I could not have been elegant if you remarked!\", he answered. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the sake of young people, I hope that \u003cstrong\u003etin medals\u003c\/strong\u003e have disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am a member of the French Academy, the Belgian Academy, the German Academy, the American Academy, the Uruguayan Academy, and, although I speak almost no English, I am doctor honoris causa of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_9.59.38_AM.jpg?v=1746021603\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003eRewards indeed! \u003cstrong\u003eOne who accepts these things had better duck, for they are forms of transcendental punishment.\u003c\/strong\u003e And if he is offered them, it is because he has let himself be seen. Yes, he has let perhaps no more than the tip of his ear be seen, but this should not be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Sardine:\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_10.07.16_AM.jpg?v=1746022059\u0026amp;width=700\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCocteau:\u003cbr\u003eThis was a very great musician who was thought of as a joker during his lifetime but who was not. To deflate the pompous this musician used to call his compositions by droll titles. His name was Erik Satie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA propos of Maurice Ravel, who had declined the Légion d'honneur, Satie said, \u003cstrong\u003e\"The point is not to decline the Légion d'honneur. It is more important not to have deserved it.\" \u003c\/strong\u003eSatie also said, \"He declines the Légion d'honneur but his work accepts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I hope that all the twaddle, all the tin medals pinned to swallow-tailed coats, all the ribandry of art will have disappeared by the year 2000 and that you are serious and attentive young people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2025-04-30_at_10.03.32_AM.jpg?v=1746021838\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++ \"Herbert Read considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris. Nevertheless, in the 1953 New Year Honours he accepted a knighthood for \"services to literature\"; this caused Read to be ostracized by most of the anarchist movement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Now-Time","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":56019152470184,"sku":"rqv1789814824906","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":56019152502952,"sku":"wsy1789814824907","price":27.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":56019152535720,"sku":"phr1789814824908","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":56019152568488,"sku":"ubs1789814824909","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XXL","offer_id":56019152601256,"sku":"tpd1789814824910","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/9084\/5096\/files\/transcendental-punishments_1.gif?v=1789814853","url":"https:\/\/silkdrapefit.shop\/products\/transcendental-punishments","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}