In Art As In Lovemaking, Heartfelt Ineptitude

Everyone Is Necessarily The Hero Of His Own Life Story.

It Is Often Pleasant To Stone A Martyr, No Matter How Much We May Admire Him.

It's Easier And Sociabler To Talk Technique Than It Is To Make Art.

Those Rituals Of Getting Ready To Write Produce A Kind Of Trance State.

Printed Prose Is Historically A Most Peculiar, Almost An Aberrant Way Of Telling Stories, And By Far The Most Inherently Anesthetic: It Is The Only Medium Of Art I Can Think Of Which Appeals Directly To None Of Our Five Senses. The Oral And Folk Tradition In Narrative Made Use Of Verse Or Live-voice Dynamics, Embellished By Gesture And Expression--a Kind Of Rudimentary Theater--as Do The Best Raconteurs Of All Times. Commonly There Was Musical Accompaniment As Well: A Kind Of One-man Theater-of-mixed-means.