January 2010
7 posts
time for some pictures of baby elephants playing... →
Bérubé: How many submissions did you receive for The Institution of Literature? Williams: 385, not counting the nine essays you submitted, eight of which sucked, if you don’t mind my saying so. Bérubé: Not at all. I totally respect your opinion when it comes to essays of mine that suck. Williams: Well, they did. As did many of the 65 essays I accepted, 38 of which I had to rewrite. Lyon: That...
“verse not interesting enough as a verse to warrant so much of it”
- Pound’s handwritten note on the typescript of The Waste Land. Oh Ezra, you demented fascist, you had your moments, and so many of them.
anyway.
It’s either too late, or too early to be going through an identity crisis I tell myself, but as some of you might have noticed, it’s been a crappy winter. Blarg.
let the first two minutes build the momentum for... →
(started grading term papers)