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The main advantage of halves is their flexibility. They can adapt to anything.
I hate utility when we are talking about poetry because the function of a poem is to be a poem
It is as if he took an old rotting book, hollowed it out, and stuffed his own weird little objects in there.
the book presents the odd spectacle of a more interesting writer admiring the work of a less interesting writer. It is the complete reverse of the Sontag book
There is no arrival. All arrivals are departures.
We used to dream about getting a plastic ball, and now we had a real, genuine hand-stitched football. But we were too scared to even show it off.
An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision...
In Generation X, the characters draw close to each other through telling stories. In Burnside, the stories have been replaced by rumors.
dissolving each muscle
fiber into a smooth, concordant waveform
History is irreversibly written as a laceration upon the body
The snapshots that Morrison leaves us with are meant to be uploaded, envisioned. Afeterimages of bright lights and collisions of verse.
Jean is a novel about disappearance without anyone actually disappearing.
The bitter stone on which the child bites
The Weird lives in the terrifying space between apprehension and comprehension.