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“Writers must oppose systems. It’s important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments…I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us. You know, in America and in western Europe we live in very wealthy democracies, we can do virtually anything we want, I’m able to write whatever I want to write. But I can’t be part of this culture of simulation, in the sense of the culture’s absorbing of everything…If you’re a writer who, one way or another, comes to be seen as dangerous, you’ll wake up one morning and discover your face on a coffee mug or a t-shirt and you’ll have been neutralized.”
~ Don Delillo
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Dashiell Hammett worked for the Pinkerton Agency as a private investigator and one of his cases was silent film star Fatty Arbuckle’s alleged rape of Virginia Rappe, an aspiring actress who died from a ruptured bladder two days later. Although Arbuckle was acquitted, his career never recovered. Hammett, however, went on to become one of the greatest hard-boiled detective pulp fiction novelists and film noir screenplay writers of all-time.
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“Stories die of their own accord,” the Demon said.“They are like us; they want to live, no matter how badly they are treated.”— The Grave of Lost Stories, William T. Vollman Share this:
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“Cool summer nights. Windows open. Lamps burning.
Fruit in the bowl. And your head on my shoulder.
These the happiest moments in the day.
Next to the early morning hours, of course.
And the time just before lunch. And the afternoon,
and early evening hours. But I do love these
summer nights. Even more, I think, than those other
times. The work finished for the day.
And no one who can reach us now. Or ever.”~ Raymond Carver Share this:
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To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.
~ Dominique Venner (1935-2013)
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Epitaph forThe lost poemWhich containedEverythingAnd nothing.Touched everyone, anyoneWho desiredThe mystery of mysteriesWords of words, which brought forthLanguageBoth blessed & cursed usMarried us, buried us and partedThe heavens and theDeep blue seasMade Houdini disappearAnd broke the sole ofKhrushchev’s soulShot KennedyAnd then shot a rocketTo the moonSold us, indiscriminateCommanded us to war and gloryAnd holocaust – unimagined imaginationThe scavengers & architects, historyFighting for space apocalypticDown on Wall Street and in the Silicone ValleyStages of poetry and stagesOf time living, breathing & dyingOn the battlefieldsOf life.The Poem,Too earlyToo lateToo badThe lost poemWhich containedNothing and everythingEverything and nothingAt all.You left it home on theKitchen table where your childrenDrew on itIn crayonIt is just as well.___________________R.M. ENGELHARDT,FROM “THE RESURRECTION WALTZ” 2013Share this:
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BE THE VOICE, NOT THE ECHO …
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“It is the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.”
~ Remus
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