Inadequacy and inferiority.

I've never actually felt inferior to the writers I admire. Which must say a hell of a lot about my arrogance and delusions of grandeur, I realise, but let's not go there right now.

( Wanking with wire? )

*sigh ( Read more... )

It is not as surprising as one might initially think to find that writers divide like the rest of mankind into two categories: those who listen to you and those who don't.

- Philip Roth, in an essay on Primo Levi as introduction to The Periodic Table

Ha. Gee I wonder.

So, um, is it a good thing or a bad thing that one day of William Burroughs results in one incredibly explicit erotic dream?

I think I'm a little afraid of my subconscious at the moment...

You see the priests were nothing but word and image, an old film rolling on and on with dead actors ... a blue fluid of heavy cold silence as word dust fell ( Read more... )

( thinker? pfah! )

Nicked from daisydumont.

( ... shadows move across my room in waves of lace ... )

Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you---in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.
- William S Burroughs (Aquarian)

( you can't be too sure that your secret life won't show through. )

( scads and rebels. )

Vulnerable today... I don't know why ...

Going home tonight. This is a good thing.

This will be Make Icons Weekend.

I know I've promised lots of people lots of icons ... please feel free to poke this absent minded twit with a reminder. There shall be Gallo, Strange Little Girls, Wet!Jules, Court/Jules, Court/Anton and a whole new set of Dandys ( Read more... )

( I do not share a brain with Courtney Taylor-Taylor. )