February 2012
18 posts
I died in a book
-Noah Eli Gordon
There’s a candle flickers any animal’s silhouette on cathedral walls, so why am I the mammal the village idiot’s always eyeing?
-Noah Eli Gordon
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How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words?
-Italo Calvino, “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler”
Decline of Values
wwnorton:
I’m reading a B.A. thesis on the decline of values. Logically, falling implies a height from which to fall, and who’s that stupid?
Life is neither up nor down, and still less in between. Life has no idea of up and down, fullness and void, before and after. And knows zip about the present.
Tear up your pages, ditch them in the sewer, abandon your degree and you can brag that you were...
