ArisVelouchiotis posted:i'm reading old paris review interviews.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4502/the-art-of-fiction-no-33-louis-ferdinand-celine
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4331/the-art-of-fiction-no-39-jorge-luis-borges
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4954/the-art-of-fiction-no-12-william-faulkner
INTERVIEWER
You mentioned economic freedom. Does the writer need it?
FAULKNER
No. The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I've never known anything good in writing to come from having accepted any free gift of money. The good writer never applies to a foundation. He's too busy writing something. If he isn't first rate he fools himself by saying he hasn't got time or economic freedom. Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
littlegreenpills posted:i want to read more Theory but my eyes always glaze over, what am i doing wrong
read stuff that doesnt suck
littlegreenpills posted:i want to read more Theory but my eyes always glaze over, what am i doing wrong
have either less sex or more sex, whichever one you're not doing right now
littlegreenpills posted:i want to read more Theory but my eyes always glaze over, what am i doing wrong
why?
aerdil posted:littlegreenpills posted:i want to read more Theory but my eyes always glaze over, what am i doing wrong
have either less sex or more sex, whichever one you're not doing right now
so you're a late bloomer or did you go to an all male college?
cleanhands posted:reading theory makes me depressed, maybe you should switch up to history
lol yea that's a real gem of optimism
wasted posted:cleanhands posted:reading theory makes me depressed, maybe you should switch up to history
lol yea that's a real gem of optimism
it puts the present into perspective so actually it is
cleanhands posted:wasted posted:
cleanhands posted:
reading theory makes me depressed, maybe you should switch up to history
lol yea that's a real gem of optimism
it puts the present into perspective so actually it is
it just show how fallible and fragile we are while fostering anxiety and guilt over things we cannot possible change
You know what else puts the present into perspective? not knowing shit about other times or cultures and therefore being able to accept the present as an arbitrary constant like a blue sky or salty ocean and move on.
littlegreenpills posted:i want to read more Theory but my eyes always glaze over, what am i doing wrong
do you take notes in the margins while you're reading, that helps
Ironicwarcriminal posted:cleanhands posted:wasted posted:
cleanhands posted:
reading theory makes me depressed, maybe you should switch up to history
lol yea that's a real gem of optimism
it puts the present into perspective so actually it isit just show how fallible and fragile we are while fostering anxiety and guilt over things we cannot possible change
You know what else puts the present into perspective? not knowing shit about other times or cultures and therefore being able to accept the present as an arbitrary constant like a blue sky or salty ocean and move on.
not knowing the world beyond the present gives the present an undue importance, in such a context 'moving on' would be irresponsible much like punching crocodiles and trying to climb into a kangaroos pouch
Keven posted:I bet you've been doing a lot of honor de balzac
kev, you've really crossed the line. sometimes you take it a little too far.
cleanhands posted:reading in the sun is rly bad aesthetics fyi
i decide whats aesthetics
aerdil posted:i live near golden gate park and have been reading in the sun whenever i get the chance now, watching tourists be idiots is great aesthetics
i was a tourist in san francisco... once...
tpaine posted:that was insensitive, deadken is currently homeless and has nowhere else to read
i thought tHE r H i z z o n E was a forum for homeless guys who have wives and want amphetamines
''What we're saying is there is a time and a place,'' Ms Chipchase said. ''We just don't want violence, dead people or anything that could distress people. In that public domain area it's about entertainment and engagement.''