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Yearbook Weirdness –
November 30, 2022 |
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We checked, and it's still true that if [for ten thousand ages] day and night, the human race should write, and write, and write, till all pens and paper were used up, and the huge inkstand was an empty cup, still would the scribblers clustered round its brink call for more pens, more paper, and more ink [Oliver Wendell Holmes]. From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
June 10, 2021 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
February 2, 2021 |
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"The trouble with literature is that writers have to be the ones who write it. It's always partial; it's always partisan, and it's always incomplete. When I say that writers have to be the ones to write it, I mean that in order to generate the energy to create a big novel, a big play, an involved poem, one has to be a species of fanatic. You have to think that that is really the only thing worth doing. Otherwise, you can't generate the intensity to do it well. And to that degree, by generating that intensity, you are blinding yourself to what does not fit into some preconceived pattern in your own mind. There's no doubt about that to me, and I think that probably lay behind Plato's prohibition of the artist in society, He was right in the sense that the artist doesn't know what he is doing, to some extent. That is, we pretend, or like to believe, that we are depicting the whole truth of some situation, when as a matter of fact, the whole truth is, by definition, made impossible by the fact that we are obsessed people. I don't know of a first class piece of work written by what I would call, or a psychologist would call, a balanced, adjusted fellow who could easily be, let us say, a good administrator for a complicated social mechanism of some sort. It doesn't work that way. We are not constituted that way; so consequently, to be sure, it will have to be partial. The impulse to do it is obsessive; it always is. One of the fairest, most just writers was Tolstoi, who was, to make it short, quite mad."
—Arthur Miller, “Morality and Modern Drama: Interview with Phillip Gelb” (Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism, ed. Gerald Weales), via GrandHotelAbyss
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory –
December 29, 2020 |
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All the while, I presumed every reference was strictly 'pataphysical. I could verify the existence of Gary Barwin and his works first-hand, but surely tomes such as the one-letter-words dictionary, How To Be Your Own Cat, the Hexopedia, et al, were to be found only in the so-called imaginal realms (as if this ain't one). Was I ever staggered to find you've actually materialized such marvels! (Which is perhaps the most 'pataphysical aspect of all.) You know, I would have been grateful for your recent kind words about my own video no matter what, but in context of discovering your work I could not be more honoured. I am going to have a blast exploring your vibrant, distinctive, and superbly fun creations.
Don't miss Mr. Venright's deadpan video, in which he shares his 117 steps to instant gratification. It's a total scream.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 14, 2020 |
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory –
July 15, 2020 |
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"You sir have awoken something in me that has been collecting dust for quite some time now. In a sense, an encounter with bad luck had me concluding that life was too busy for art. Thank you for shining a light far enough for me to find a source of my own. I shall repay the favor and pass it on with each chance that presents itself." --Joshua Batie
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