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“But enough of this cursed first person,” it announces at one point in its self-canceling word cascades, “it is really too red a herring.…Bah, any old pronoun will do, provided one sees through it. Matter of habit.” And, later, almost an aside: “I. Who might that be?”
— Oct 15, 2021 07:41PM
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W.D. Clarke
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Samuel R. Delaney:
With a Gass or a Nabokov, recognizing the difference between their prose and the ordinary is like recognizing the difference between someone who gets up and walks across the room and someone who leaps up, to grab a trapeze hanging from the ceiling, vaults into the air and spins, balances, and flips.
— Oct 17, 2021 07:05PM
With a Gass or a Nabokov, recognizing the difference between their prose and the ordinary is like recognizing the difference between someone who gets up and walks across the room and someone who leaps up, to grab a trapeze hanging from the ceiling, vaults into the air and spins, balances, and flips.
W.D. Clarke
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As a writer/reader, not to mention as a human, I live best in dread
— Oct 11, 2021 04:20AM
W.D. Clarke
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“The [publishing industry's mythical] housewife in Nebraska has, of course, a male counterpart,” [Samuel R.] Delany continues. “In commercial terms, he’s only about a third as important as she is. The basic model for the novel reader has traditionally been female since the time of Richardson. But the male counterpart's good opinion is considered far more prestigious. He’s a high school English teacher in Montana who
— Oct 06, 2021 07:13AM