December 2008
50 posts
“You are not your characters, but your characters are you.”
– Raymond Carver
November 2008
13 posts
“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an...”
– Hamlet and His Problems. Eliot, T. S. 1920. The Sacred Wood
The Believer - Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus →
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth...
hamholio: negro is in the boston crossword this morning
hamholio: i'm shocked
rk: huh
rk: that's seems...not ok
rk: well what's the clue
hamholio: name of several south american rivers
rk: ahhhhhhhhhhhh
hamholio: : aha
rk: "oprah"
rk: that wouldve been offensive
“In an anthropological respect, let me reiterate, a human being is an aesthetic creature before he is an ethical one. Therefore, it is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species’ development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature - and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution -...
Mr. Polutikin
“He called his dog Astronomer; instead of ‘however’ said ‘howsomever’; and had established in his household a French system of cookery, the secret of which consisted, according to his cook’s interpretation, in a complete transformation of the natural taste of each dish; in this artiste’s hands meat assumed the flavour of fish, fish of mushrooms, macaroni of gunpowder; to make up for this,...
