Kip Manley's Blog, page 28

Things to keep in mind (The secret of the pickle barrel)

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Closing)

“What time is it?” – a Shining detritus

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Act IV)

the Light is changing – from Lip to Lip – the Cachet of Cardboard – öt Puttonyos

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Act III)

not One, but Six – Everybody – why They are there – the Future, and the Past – thus, the News

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Act II)

“So you’re, like, dead” – the Sound of His name
 – Eddie frets – twice Italian

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Act I)

the Lights about the Mirror – a Tied game – the Avant-garde – 
a Joyous yawp

No. 36: so powerfully strong (Opening)

North Leonard Street – Back up the Hall


Things to keep in mind (The secret of now)

Imagination like all living things lives now, and it lives with, from, on true change. Like all we do and have, it can be co-opted and degraded; but it survives commercial and didactic exploitation. The land outlasts the empires. The conquerors may leave desert where there was forest and meadow, but the rain will fall, the rivers will run to the sea. The unstable, mutable, untruthful realms of Once-upon-a-time are as much a part of human history and thought as the nations in our kaleidoscopic atlases, and some are more enduring.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don’t live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

Things to keep in mind (The secret of being wrong)

I knew that I wanted it to be a little wrong. I’d like to make this, like, a little bit funny. Take this a little too far. So I did the tie-dye, which was pink and purple on the pants, I went a little further with the Home Depot chains. There’s gotta be something wrong about anything that you do, otherwise it’s just plain old cliché.

—Tim Cappello

No. 36: “ – so powerfully strong – ”

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North Leonard Street – Back up the Hall
 – the Lights about the Mirror – a Tied game – the Avant-garde – 
a Joyous yawp – “So you’re, like, dead” – the Sound of His name
 – Eddie frets – twice Italian – not One, but Six – Everybody – why They are there – the Future, and the Past – thus, the News – the Light is changing – from Lip to Lip – the Cachet of Cardboard – öt Puttonyos – “What time is it?” – a Shining detritus