April 18th, 2012 / 2:25 pm
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If there’s any one good way to make writing even more irrelevant in the world it’s by doting over ceremonial bullshit that never meant anything in the first place.

16 Comments

  1. April 18th, 2012 / 2:42 pm Scott McClanahan—

      Hah!   Amen, brother.

  2. April 18th, 2012 / 2:53 pm Mark Buckner—

      What “ceremonial bullshit” are you referring to?

  3. April 18th, 2012 / 3:11 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      I’d contend ceremonial bullshit is the only reason the public has found any artistic medium relevant, ever.

  4. April 18th, 2012 / 3:41 pm Mark C—

      say. fucking. word.

  5. April 18th, 2012 / 3:41 pm Shane Anderson—

      “prizes are badges of mediocrity” – charles ives (upon winning the pulitzer)

  6. April 18th, 2012 / 8:16 pm postitbreakup—
  7. April 18th, 2012 / 8:20 pm Mr. Frank Rodriguez—

      you are part of the problem because you want me to comment about how you are part of the problem, here I am via google reader telling you you are part of the problem I am part of the problem.

  8. April 18th, 2012 / 8:21 pm reynard—

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  9. April 18th, 2012 / 8:22 pm reynard—

      more like bags
      as in sacks of ca$h!

      actually it’s only $10k
      you would get more than that to attend some mfa programs
      which is especially why it does not matter

       

  10. April 18th, 2012 / 8:33 pm leapsloth14—

      Uh, could you go ahead and name names? 

  11. April 18th, 2012 / 11:39 pm deadgod—

      What Excuses To Talk Are Excuses To Talk About

  12. April 19th, 2012 / 12:54 am Jordan Pennington—

      well for me and the others among us who are poor and debilitatingly narcissistic, the money and attention sound much more appealing than relevant writing. 

  13. April 19th, 2012 / 1:23 am Anonymous—

      when i win the pulitzer, i’m gong to give it to my friend rick santorium. he’ll get a kick out of that damn thing.

  14. April 19th, 2012 / 8:21 am Mike James—

      You really like DFW, huh bro? Is this, for you, like for me when Denzel didn’t win for Malcolm X?

  15. April 19th, 2012 / 7:39 pm Anonymous—

      Ever governed by instinct rather than by thought the common people cleave to ideas through the mediation of forms, and it is with difficulty that they modify their habits.  The attempt to destroy superstitions impresses them always as an attack on religion itself, and hence St. Gregory, one of the greatest popes in Christendom, did not seek to suppress the old practices.  He recommended his missionaries purify and not destroy the temples, saying that ‘so long as a people have their old places of worship they will frequent them by force of habit and will thus be led more easily to the worship of the true GOD.’ He said also: ‘The BRetons have fixed days for feasts and sacrifices; leave them their feasts and their festivals, but from the state of paganism draw them gently and progressively into the estate of Christ.’

  16. April 22nd, 2012 / 8:13 pm Anonymous—

      Ceremony is what keeps the irrelevant relevant.  Maybe just create new ceremonies, and retire the old.