Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
--Rebecca West
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
I love this idea. Thanks for sharing it.
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Mystery Writing is Murder
I was looking at the photo album I just made of vacation pictures and rejecting "a picture's worth a thousand words" in favor of your quotation, which is more accurate. Already (in a week) some of those experiences have started to fade. A picture is, at best, a memory jog. Not an account of the experience...
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