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weirdly breezy for a story about an agoraphobe during a revolution

it occurs to me i am the kind of non-creative who needs to be told where and how i can be creative. i think i am good at being "creative" given a list like the above, eg i doodle 'fonts' all the time, but I would have trouble coming up with that list on my own or adding new categories to it. maybe this is why i only like playing written (classical) music

journal spice: lists, stats, different fonts, macro views, letter art, maps, a little dada, landscapes, sparse pages, ape that 'biological plate' style of local flora-fauna, have other people write in it

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do i need to buy a lute now? i need to buy a lute.

"Natalie Janotha would never give a concert without her dog, Prince White Heather, somewhere on stage within her view."

there’s something refreshing about 1950s editorializing “Thalberg was well liked as a human being.”

mike is surely the hero here

"He was arguing with her in a low, attractive voice."

“I’d worried that, in making the movie, the director might get me and my family wrong, but now a worse thought occurred to me: What if he got us right?”

the linguistman didn't expect this to be a book about running but that was alright, as long as he didn't stand out.

only karl could make serious essays about Noses and Santa

"When a Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which we have so long been famous."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

what a calm picture compared to the chaos of her stories

what damage does flannery have, what damage

cormac mccarthy eat your heart out too. o'connor is DARK

munro eat your heart out. these are awesome, very interior and punishing

it's brown book season

each unhappy family etcetera etcetera

harsh

"Snakes and pianists are vertebrates."

wow, this is superb. already funny and full of good advice, and unexpectedly... sad?

but the towel's PINK

i NEED a book 7 about the writing and reception of book 6

the only way this could be better is if they all played the harp

this is the tenth flight i've took this brick on

“Yet all this was only the prologue of the actual Dunwich horror.“ god. my oil diffuser gurgled and i jumped

i should not read this before bed. or dinner, or breakfast scream emoji

this is good easy reading but i realized I care/know so little about orchestral music, and definitely chamber music. i guess I listen to mostly solo stuff, i could tell you everything about solo piano rep, and a lot about solo flute/harp stuff, but not diff recordings of symphonies, etc. there are people who are musicians+listeners, and people who are listeners, i've noticed the latter tend toward orchestral stuff