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Barthelme and Not-knowing

Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how…. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention…. The not-knowing is not simple, […]

We are all a little weird…

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” ~ Dr. Seuss Ah, mutual weirdness is something I can get behind.

Admit One

Some borderline hoarder *ahem* is cleaning out the clutter & came across these ticket stubs from late 1999. Looking back, this was a pretty good period for films.

But the barriers of distance are crumbling

“Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local […]

Infinite Readings

I would prefer a ‘previously owned’ book over a new one in most every instance. That musty, ‘old book’ aroma is my personal gateway, like Proust and his madeleine, to a childhood of thumbing through paperbacks at garage sales and flea markets…as well as the afternoons drifted away at Beckham’s Books on Decatur Street. There […]