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There are some people here whose only talent is persistence. That's one thing I lack -- perhaps I should try to learn it from those club-foots. -
story idea from notebook
"One man that owns chickens slowly finds out that everyone else also owns chickens." - date unknown -
So in love with this
"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and so I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."
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home
I was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week. I left on Friday, a few hours before they closed the interstate. The water lapped up to the very edge of the road's shoulder as I, feeling quite like one of the Israelites that fled Egypt, drove over the river ( Read more... ) -
You said it, Ben
"We should not forget that to be a fine story writer is to be an artist of language, someone who uses sentences to produce feeling. However simple this sounds, there is something extraordinary about it to me, given how few sentences that we encounter in our our daily lives can manage to make us feel anything, to stir us toward revelation. The ( Read more... ) -
A real low point
A friend of mine just called to talk -- about two minutes into our conversation, her brother told her that a show on midget / dwarf cats was on television. My friend said, "I wanted to see that, I'll talk to you later."
