January 2012
16 posts
The best part about 2011 was that I didn’t do anything incredibly stupid, like I did in 2010.
December 2011
13 posts
vwswrite asked: So you have an MFA in writing? I was thinking of going on to do that but I'm not sure if it's worth it. What do you think? Did it help you in any way in your pursuits??
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My year in books
I found quite a few books to be earthshakingly good this year, many more so than usual. I don’t know if this means it was the books that were better or if it was I who had become a better reader. I am of the perhaps mistaken notion that it is the reader that creates the book through reading, so I would be inclined to say that I had evolved in the past year, and that after one-third of a...
All the various valuations that are put on [life] by the social game are illusory, basically. Because it’s only in play that we say this is good, this is bad, this is advantageous, this is disadvantageous. We would go on to say after this, “I cannot imagine anything more difficult than overcoming this hypnosis. I am so enchanted by this system that the idea of treating it as not very...
Does the present create the past?
My throat is sore, but I have no brandy to douse it.
Here is the last thing I typed on my typewriter:
“We measure ourselves against others: Am I sane or insane? Am I smart or am I the stupid one here? How can I reach those shores of the norm where is which so many of us would like to dwell.”
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Brother's Friend Maggie: Laugh like a Bellatrix. You'll feel better.
Monkfish Jowls: What's a Bellatrix?
Brother's Friend Maggie: Really?
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