Comments on: Thoughts on Submission (SFW)

By: dermonti

dermonti — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:05:54 +0000

I like the posting, it;s really caring.

By: dermonti

dermonti — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:05:00 +0000

I like the posting, it;s really caring.

By: Ken Baumann

Ken Baumann — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:18:32 +0000

Justin: Just read this again, and your followup comments, and again was massively inspired and assured. Really fucking excellent thing, here.

By: Ken Baumann

Ken Baumann — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:18:00 +0000

Justin: Just read this again, and your followup comments, and again was massively inspired and assured. Really fucking excellent thing, here.

By: Shay Bukwerm

Shay Bukwerm — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:21:56 +0000

Thanks for filling me in, footnoting—but, what a well bungled bungle! what an apposite oops! (I.e., there are many ways in which the thing I am trying in vain to say may be tried in vain to be said etc.)

By: Shay Bukwerm

Shay Bukwerm — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:21:00 +0000

By: Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:45:46 +0000

Shay, you can’t find the quote because I’ve mis-quoted him, rather badly it seems. The line is from the close of “Nothing: A Preliminary Account,” which you can find in Sixty Stories. Here is the proper line-

“How joyous the notion that, try as we may, we cannot do other than fail and fail absolutely and that the task will remain always before us, like a meaning for our lives.”

I mis-remembered the line as appearing in “The Glass Mountain,” which has a whole thing in it about glittering–and another whole thing about reasons–so that’s a big OOPS for me. I finally figured it out using Google Book Search, after both “failures” AND “reasons” turned up zilch, I realized I must have bungled the thing rather badly, so I searched for “lives” and finally got it.

By: Justin Taylor

Justin Taylor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:45:00 +0000

“How joyous the notion that, try as we may, we cannot do other than fail and fail absolutely and that the task will remain always before us, like a meaning for our lives.”

By: Shay Bukwerm

Shay Bukwerm — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:28:11 +0000

Does anyone know the source of that Barthelme quote? “great glittering failures like a reason for our lives” I would be pleased to read it in context, careful and slow, online or not, but I can’t find it.

Anyone?

By: Shay Bukwerm

Shay Bukwerm — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:28:00 +0000

Anyone?