identification [?]
By itself, the story becomes plodding, tends toward stereotypes, breaks up as soon as it ceases to excite its author, contradicts itself time and again, is enriched with odd details, meanders off, drifts, bogs down, suddenly reappears, lingers over trivial scenes, skips essential ones, drops back to the past, rushes years ahead, spreads an hour over a hundred pages, condenses a month into ten lines, and then suddenly there is a burst of activity that pulls things together, brings them into line and explains the symbols." (Sartre, on Notre Dame des Fleurs)
Is that not sexy?
Freud describes this re-telling of dreams as follows: "The words which are put together in this way are no longer nonsensical but may form a poetical phrase of the greatest beauty and significance. A dream is a picture-puzzle of this sort (...)"
"It is agreed that the writing of the novel is a masturbatory act, the author taking on a voice of a narrator that is "in prison awaiting the conclusion of his own trial, passing his time constructing his elaborate sexual/ethnographic fantasies about a bunch of Montmartre queers"
Is that not sexy?
Freud describes this re-telling of dreams as follows: "The words which are put together in this way are no longer nonsensical but may form a poetical phrase of the greatest beauty and significance. A dream is a picture-puzzle of this sort (...)"
"It is agreed that the writing of the novel is a masturbatory act, the author taking on a voice of a narrator that is "in prison awaiting the conclusion of his own trial, passing his time constructing his elaborate sexual/ethnographic fantasies about a bunch of Montmartre queers"