December 2009
11 posts
“What I remember is love - all love - love of this dirt road, this sunrise, a day...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from the novel lighthousekeeping
on form
“Although it looks like a fixed shape, a permanent configuration or ideal, whether in eternity, in the mind, or on the page, in fact form is mobile, versatile. It remains open to distant senses, distortions, to the push-and-pull of opposites or cognates. While most abstract nouns lend themselves to philosophical whittling, to definitions which reduce their sense for clarity and use, form...
“The nature of a work of art is to be not part, nor yet a copy of the real world...”
– A.C. Bradley’s Oxford lectures in 1901
read this out loud
This is a quote, but it’s too long to post in quote mode. So here it is. I was reading up on postmodernism vs. postmodernity (because I’ve never really known what those terms mean…I just nod blankly when people mention them in conversation, or skim over them in books). Anyway, this quote speaks of postmodernism as a buzz word. Which is perhaps what has confused me about its usage...
“And by the way, everything in life is writeable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath
