April 19th, 2011 / 10:43 pm
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14 mixed feelings on disliking cops

14. Got nervous reading out loud tonight. I know my voice trembled. I became aware of said fact, this trembling voice, and…and, and you know the cycle. Fuck. I felt low. I speak out loud FOR A LIVING. This happens about thrice a year. Any tips?

13. The story — or more accurately, the story about the story — resonated in the media cycle far more than a typical New Yorker article.

That painting will be sold for $25 million plus. Did you look at it or the “Christie’s employee” first? Just wondering. Just the posing of the “Christie’s employee” in this way to present the grotesque twisting of the self portrait should open some questions about art. Suddenly I sound like Jimmy Chen, but with much less eloquence.

14. The thing I see now is the poem written by two. Braided Creek is a book of poetry written by two. It is damn good:

Each time I go outside the world
is different. This has happened
all my life.
*
The sparrow is not busy,
but hungry.
14. If the frame story narrator has no significant heart connection to the big story, the head-meat being told, remove the frame. My opinion. I am talking technique now. The frame should be very, very necessary.

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12 Comments

  1. April 20th, 2011 / 2:48 am M. Kitchell—

      dude you gotta be reaaaaalllllly hetero to notice the shadow’d back of a Christie’s employee before Francis Bacon heads

  2. April 20th, 2011 / 4:42 am Trey—

      what do you think of the frame in Wuthering Heights?

      I am going to attempt to get people to talk about Wuthering Heights. I am going to attempt it forever

  3. April 20th, 2011 / 5:48 am Christopher Higgs—

      Trey, if you haven’t already, check out the first chapter in Bataille’s book Literature and Evil. It’s all about how Wuthering Heights is pure evil. I loved WH before I read Bataille’s take on it, but now I love it times twelve.

  4. April 20th, 2011 / 5:48 am Christopher Higgs—

      Trey, if you haven’t already, check out the first chapter in Bataille’s book Literature and Evil. It’s all about how Wuthering Heights is pure evil. I loved WH before I read Bataille’s take on it, but now I love it times twelve.

  5. April 20th, 2011 / 6:23 am Trey—

      going to check this out right away. thanks!

  6. April 20th, 2011 / 7:13 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Guilty!

  7. April 20th, 2011 / 12:52 pm Adam Robinson—

      Jim Harrison is the best.

  8. April 20th, 2011 / 1:12 pm M. Kitchell—

      lol

  9. April 20th, 2011 / 11:45 pm kb—

      I love Jim Harrison so much. He’s pretty much the only writer of any significance from the same part of the world as I am, outside of Hemingway’s childhood vacations which provide the setting for his young Nick Adams stories. Anyway, Harrison, love him, and I don’t ever talk about him, because there’s not a whole lot of theory to debate about with him, in my view. True North, Sundog, Warlock, Farmer, good God, man. Love.

  10. April 21st, 2011 / 12:25 am kb—

      Also: The rare western writer who doesn’t mystify and obfuscate Zen Buddhism, while at the same time not making a “New Age Self Help” banalization of it. Love Harrison.

  11. April 21st, 2011 / 6:34 am reynard—

      title of this post is tits

  12. April 21st, 2011 / 8:12 am math—

      love