December 2010
18 posts
Books push their writer forward. The writer has to have the accumulation of what...
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (via wordpainting)
“My mother is a fish.”
—Vardaman, “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner
“But I told her there want no luck in it, because the Lord put roads for traveling: why he laid them down flat on the earth. When He aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it long ways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. And so He never aimed for folks to live on a road, because which...