Sean Lovelace—
“I am more proud of the books I have read than the books I have written.” Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevdeo
“I am more proud of the books I have read than the books I have written.” Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevdeo
“First and foremost, I think of myself as a reader.” — Borges
being the 2nd epigraph to Markson’s Reader’s Block, which I have been re-reading yesterday & today. Much more could be said about Markson’s effacing of the reader/writer dichotomy, but don’t really have time to write that essay right now.
Also:
http://www.conversationalreading.com/2010/01/writers-vs-commentators.html
“First and foremost, I think of myself as a reader.” — Borges
being the 2nd epigraph to Markson’s Reader’s Block, which I have been re-reading yesterday & today. Much more could be said about Markson’s effacing of the reader/writer dichotomy, but don’t really have time to write that essay right now.
Also:
http://www.conversationalreading.com/2010/01/writers-vs-commentators.html
That’s a fucking provocative division, the writer/commentator graph. Should prob go ahead and post that alone and let people rip.
That’s a fucking provocative division, the writer/commentator graph. Should prob go ahead and post that alone and let people rip.
I must say that whole t ing seems kind of bizarre. Wouldn’t Proust make more sense as a commentator who talks about what has already existed and Borges be more of a model for a “creator” who invents things?
I must say that whole t ing seems kind of bizarre. Wouldn’t Proust make more sense as a commentator who talks about what has already existed and Borges be more of a model for a “creator” who invents things?
Agreed. Do that.
Agreed. Do that.
why be proud of either?
why be proud of either?
Spoken in a TV-sitcom voice: “Jer-eeEeeme! Your depression knows no bounds!”
Spoken in a TV-sitcom voice: “Jer-eeEeeme! Your depression knows no bounds!”