question for OLDER GENERATIONS ONLY, not a joke, pls rt: at what point did creative writing and literary study become so separated and often even oppositional in their modes of inquiry / disciplinary norms? why is it like this? (1/?)
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
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don't think about it. don't try to be cool. tell me, what's a sentence or line or any tweetable series-of-words that you can quote from memory and you think about it all the time and it bewilders or puzzles or delights you
i love that adrienne rich was a flawed and imperfect smart human who tried to figure out her contemporary moment as best she could in real time and sometimes got it really wrong and sometimes got it really right and sometimes "both of these things are true"
wittgenstein said a lot of problems of philosophy are actually problems about how people are using words and I think that's true. don't know if anyone said it before