A book is an assemblage. It is a multiplicity--but we don't know yet what the multiple entails. It also has a side...which is continually dismantling the oganism, causing asignifying particles or pure intensities to pass or circulate. The units of measure are what is essential: quantify writing. There is no difference between what a book talks ( Read more... )

"I saw her kiss him," said Susan. "I looked between the leaves and saw her. She danced in flecked with diamonds light as dust."

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"At last," said Bernard, "the growl ceases. The sermon ends. He has minced the dance of the white butterflies at the door to powder."

--The Waves, Virginia Woolf, 1931 (pp. 7 & 19)

Criticism is apparently dying. Let's give out awards, instead.

*Grumbling* It's certainly a hell of a lot easier. *Grumbles more*

Ignore me. I'm grouchy.

Quote of the day:

"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning." --George Orwell

"...perception is not the object plus something, but the object minus something, minus everything that does not interest us. It could be said that the object itself merges with a pure virtual perception, at the same time as our real perception merges with the object from which it has abstracted only that which did not interest us. Hence Bergson's ( Read more... )

So I'm watching Apocalypse Now Redux on Bravo and very slightly drunk (which probably is the reason for watching A.N.R.), and I needed to just...rant. A little. In a good way. And I thought about phone-posting, but I might do that later if I keep drinking at this rate. But it's just...Conrad was so good, y'know? Narrative within narrative, layers ( Read more... )

Because I'm at work, and bored, and surrounded by bank statements belonging to people I have never met and never will:

The Condensed Guide to Looking Like a Writer.

"Instead of a pen, some writers attempt to increase their street cred by claiming to use a typewriter. Unless the writer is over sixty, this is a lie. After all, deliberately using ( Read more... )

( FI-verse Definitions )

"After 3 long weeks of waiting, my 2 bottles of absinthe finally arrived in the mail (King of Spirits and LeMercier). For so long I’ve been intrigued by the mystique and lore surrounding this potent libation… Is it authentic? Ancient recipe? Isn’t it illegal here? Does it really stimulate creativity and cause hallucinations as claimed by the poet ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah. I had this very odd dream last night. There were maniacal cats...? It was in a place I dream of a lot, except something went wrong. Like (oh, hey! Temptations in my headphones!) when you...I don't know...turn on the shower and expect hot water but out comes cold? Just...an attitude thats inherently wrong ( Read more... )