Susan Sontag apparently said “books are funny little portable pieces of thought.” I didn’t hear her say it but I read it and I believe almost everything the Oprah Magazine prints. Anyway, that citation was printed on the bookmark I used while reading this book and it strkes me as particularly apropos for this [...]
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A classic, for the rainy days. Some of the most beautiful, enigmatic language ever written in English. It does not hurt that there’s plenty to learn in the way of history through his encyclopedic allusions from Proust to 1950s American pop culture. [...] Progress …is made by putting one foot in front of the other. Sprinting is enticing to me, you get a rush and it comes fast. I sound like I regularly strap my arm down and flood it with an exciting elixir.— But I mean all that metaphorically. I am re-learning what it is to be not [...] Yates Was an Unlucky Son of a Bitch Nature, in every way, inspires us. Louis Khan apparently said that “to express…give presence..we must consult Nature.” Because we need only follow Nature’s design and we will find where we should put this piece and that piece. Perhaps writing is like that too. ” Even a brick wants to be something,” Kahn said. “A brick wants [...] |
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