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"It does not merely write of suffering. It turns suffering into a subtle artistic structure."

"[T]he sense of myself that I’d carried in my thirties and forties—of someone who could, through my editing work and my criticism, through the exercise of my judgment and taste, bring about some change for the good in American literature and culture—maybe even its politics—was gone; even for myself, I’d abandoned whatever residual ambitions I might have had in the rat race of contemporary American authorship and literary life..." —Justin Smith-Ruiu via

No way through & no one to go there.

"chemo nobodaddy"

packed Walpurgisnocturne
picayune shtick
the walls close in wisely
wone school zone
what should count as catnip
carves larvae
annul tornado alley
knock Occam
power lines luring
lewd eye mooting
nog Walpurgisnincompoop

Full tank Thursday.