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excerpt from Daniel Handler’s And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024), fuck blaming, fuck forgiving, fuck cancelling and its moral predation on literature: & the company we have when alone with a book

e.e. cummings: It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my “poems” are competing. They are also competing with each other, with elephants, and with El Greco. Every time I read
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excerpts from Writers and Missionaries, 2023, by Adam Shatz, on Richard Wright, strange order: . . . & others, ローラン・バルタース and the “risk” of universality

Wright explored his own “dark landscape,” describing two experiences that lay behind the creation of the novel. The first–an encounter with the “strangely familiar,” an idea that recurs throughout the book–took place in Chicago, shortly before his grandmother’s death in 1934. … he read a book that “miraculously
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