- Oddly and pointlessly both nervous and nauseous this morning. #fb #
- @theshoppedenver Just ate the s'mores please I brought home earlier. So good I could sit in it. #
- Watching my wife pack for a weeklong trip, reading Jean-Philippe Toussaint's The Bathroom, and wishing I had a cup of tea. #fb #
- "80. We kissed in the white corridor." #
- Drinking gin at 10 a.m. Early for a date because I misread the message. I won't feel foolish for long, I suppose. #
- @ebertchicago re: Khairy's review: A call for a return to mimesis in cinema in the world of Avatar is pretty damned ballsy (and right on). in reply to ebertchicago #
- Episode 6: "My brain grew all the way." http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_1 #fb #
- @cornelln That doesn't make any sense. If you don't read books now, you're not suddenly going to start now that you have a gadget. in reply to cornelln #
- @LairdHunt I also just received my copy. My fear is that it will make my dissertation moot. I mean, what? in reply to LairdHunt #
- People "live tweet" TV shows and webcasts. I am going to "live" tweet David Shields' new book Reality Hunger as I read it. #rh #
- Is the cover obnoxious or appropriate? It's Chip Kidd, so we know it's at least well-designed. #rh #
- a "manifesto," an abecedarium, a numbered list, a 4th element in this tweet. #rh #
- "32. The word 'novel' . . . meant the form of writing . . . that made up its own rules as it went along." Bakhtin not namechecked. Yet. #rh #
- "Panharmonicon" + German con artist + R. W. Emerson = me going back to the Emerson to do some research for my dissertation. #rh #
- "The novel of characters, though, belongs entirely to the past." I know what he means, but then who are these people in my book? #rh #
- "The present period is one of administrative numbers." He's talking about characters, but it's just as true in other contexts. #rh #
- "The life span of a fact is shrinking." Is this an indirect appropriation of Warhol's 15 minutes quotation? Or a direct one? Either way. #rh #
- If all or some of the previous is "actually" Robbe-Grillet, is my question moot? There's no date listed. Does it matter? #rh #
- "58. My medium is prose, not the novel." (Sebald) Yes. Exactly. #rh #
- I'm afraid I'm not well-read enough (???) to effectively argue with this book. I will try anyway. Please tell me if I'm wrong. #rh #
- "'it's just fiction,' a vacuous but prevalent dismissal akin to criticizing someone with his own name"(Marcus). I write "little stories" #rh #
- "Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art." #rh #
- This undertaking has already affected the way I take notes/think about taking notes. #rh #
- "If you think the heart is deceitful above all things, you should meet the author." Dear Reader, I love you. ;) #rh #
- "He should have said, '. . . . I created a person meaner, funnier, more filled with life than I could ever be.'" (about James Frey) #rh #
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- "The so-called life one finds in novels . . . is not truer . . . and its people . . . are less intricate, less free, less full."-Barthes #rh #
- "His point appears to be that nothing is beneath interest." The "he" (or she) could be any of the great novelists. #rh #
- "Attention equals life or is its only evidenc" (O'Hara). Maybe trite, but writing is a deepening of attention. #rh #
- "Life isn't about saying the tight thing; life is about failing." Failure is a fiction we tell ourselves. #rh #
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