Maxioms by James Atlas
He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet read more
He describes himself as a mild depressive, and he goes through just terrible suffering, much of it self-generated. And yet he's also an extremely buoyant person who finds a great deal in life to entertain and instruct and amuse him. He has a kind of vivacity about him. He's very funny, and he's very obsessed with certain themes.
Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it read more
Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it would take 10 years. And that's just the way it is.
An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.
An account of some of these acts makes Henry Miller's crudest imaginations seem as chaste as a nun's diary.
To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.
I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.