There's something interesting about banging a celebrity.
Whether it's the queen of B movies or the guy that does the evening news.....
It seems that for a few thrust of passion, you're no longer Mr. or Ms.
J. Q. nobody---Your fucking a dream; mixing your most private parts with
the cream of society.
People used to read books to be part of something. Whether it was the
Pilgrims Progress for phonics, or David Copperfield to enjoy a little poverty.
It may be cynical to say people have stopped reading. Perhaps it's better
to say that smart people read to impress their peer groups with hard to
find authors.
Japanese people read comics on commuter trains with the fluidity of Americans
and their sitcoms. Web authors are told to make pages easy for scanning.
Our direction appears to be "extracts", while a plethora of detail is passed
over by our tramplings.
Have you read a good book lately? Did you remember to update your book
list, taking special care to note the statement, new things learned, or
at least the number of pages you finished? Would you rather write than read?
Perhaps Salinger had it wrong,
writing will make you better, why bother to research.
Perhaps your a fundamentalist: reading three items before you
write one poem or prose--Nice ratio.
The fact is poor countries like India have more Than 20 million web developers.
We can't all write more than we read. We can't create new genre with every
write. Perhaps passing the buck makes us better world citizens; it is yet
to be seen.
My three pills for the month:
Spider Fuck
by Willie Smith.
I am thinking for Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Willie will have you taking
to your dictionary. Just when you think that this urban hood is using a
vocabulary he has not mastered, you realize that the author is very intimate
with his subject.
Challenge: has Willie just hit the 'rock bottom' mark of grotesque? The
cannibal theme is getting old if you’re trying to push the standards of convention.
Are there more bizarre details to be written, then sodomizing a spider and
turning it around for a dirty sanchez?
Pretty decent twist at the end. I don't know if this short will change
your life/writing; it's sure to screw with you in some way.
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather.
I got suckered into helping a girl with her Fem. Lit. class.
(the trade: essays for pussy) It was a nice exchange.
See the movie (hallmark, 1991 with Jessica Lange, young Sarah Graham,
Ann Hesche). Then read the book.
The book wins for description. This is an excellent resource for those
of us that get too tricky with action in writes and forget to set her up
with a little feeling.
Another reason to view: La Femme {perspective}. Unique offering of female
model as the heroine with classic love interest and failings.
Enjoyable for women; a must for male writers.
Dead Souls:
(Nicolai V. Gogol, 1842)
This has been in my PDA for two months. I love the plot; find the writing
slow as hell. (Brilliant forward where Dostoevsky and others call this
the "originator" of Russian Literature)
Plot: collect as many souls from poor people as possible. Go to a bank
and cash-in the value of the souls. The protagonist realizes that this
is easiest to do by going to rich owners and bartering for their surf’s
souls in bulk.
I guess I read for entrainment and insight. Clancy uses the Freedom of
Information Act to research.Maybe Billy Crystal should have sent his students
to a library in “Throw Mamma from the Train.” I dig the classics more than
anything to have a conversation. Even though Scientific American may have
this great article where mice “fight or fuck” based off smell (and the scientist
cut off their olafactories just to be mean; no they didn't fight everything,
when in doubt-- they decided to love.) I still see newspapers and periodicals
making FACT of sources that trade gossip for some arm glue. (Think: march/New
York Times, Ryan O’Neil on his deathbed). Some journalist may be great novelist.
Please remember Bill Bryson when you read. In Mother Tongue, he said the
German language gave us the least amount of English. Though the Leakeys may
spend years at a digsite, Bryson will reference new facts straight off the
wire.
© 2002 Nco