Up Against Another Human Being One's Own

They Were Two Superior Eels At The Bottom Of The Tank And They Recognized Each Other Like Italics.

He Came After Homer And Before Gertrude Stein, A Difficult Interval For A Poet.

Novels Institutionalize The Ruse Of Eros. It Becomes A Narrative Texture Of Sustained Incongruence, Emotional And Cognitive. It Permits The Reader To Stand In Triangular Relation To The Characters In The Story And Reach Into The Text After The Objects Of Their Desire, Sharing Their Longing But Also Detached From It, Seeing Their View Of Reality But Also Its Mistakenness. It Is Almost Like Being In Love.

What Is An Adjective? Nouns Name The World. Verbs Activate The Names. Adjectives Come From Somewhere Else. The Word Adjective (epitheton In Greek) Is Itself An Adjective Meaning 'placed On Top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives Seem Fairly Innocent Additions, But Look Again. These Small Imported Mechanisms Are In Charge Of Attaching Everything In The World To Its Place In Particularity. They Are The Latches Of Being.

I've Come To Understand That The Best One Can Hope For As A Human Is To Have A Relationship With That Emptiness Where God Would Be If God Were Available, But God Isn't.