#Eyes
#WilliamHGass
I know my life has holes at its elbows and its knees; it is a tatter of tales, mostly incomplete…When our present date gets eaten, some crumbs, some smears will remain to mark the plate…Then the past that we've devoured, we excrete. This manure feeds the meat of a new moment.
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I loved my mother at first…
she showed pride for me occasionally and her best side sometimes, not her worst
she gave me Kool-Aid and bread and peanut butter after
school and a kiss for a kiss…
for learning the spelling of the word for the day
which was
go away
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Corruption, in these bugs, is splendid. I've a collection now I keep in typewriter-ribbon tin…their bodies dry…the heavy soul is gone, the case is light…Alas for us, I want to cry…we must love what perishes: the muscles and the waters and the fats.
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An ailing and distant father.
"The bigot believes in details...So let me get to the teachings of my father...They were America, damn it, and Americans should come first….”
"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."
✒ American novelist and philosopher #WilliamHGass passed away #OTD 6 December 2017. #Literature #Philosophy
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…tap tap of one physician's pencil against the pages of his appointment book…he talked, telling me how grown up I was tap to take this commitment tap…upon myself tap…for my father tap in our sordid family business tap tap the business of getting rid of mother…
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The bigot believes in details…So let me get to the teachings of my father…The strangers were strangers…they encouraged their kids to continue with their own language…their own customs and habits…they became economically competitive…outscoring us at school….
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…on January 26,1944…Himmler told…officers of the…completion of the Final Solution...we shall understand Himmer's project as another application of the Roman-solution-to-the-Carthage-question. Since the Nazis intended to occupy Jewish property, they didn't salt the soil.
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There are worms tunneling through the dirt in her drawers which she doesn't know about. Perhaps the day's first fully pleasant thought…
There's dirt in your drawers, dearie, I don't say, if you ever thought to look.
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#WilliamHGass
The signer of the warrant is supposed to be cowardly...I say he is cleverer, and more civilized: he doesn't like killing people, so he gets someone else to do it for him...do we really want to say that the man who signs his name is more monstrous than the executioners?
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You know…sometimes, in a marriage, only one side hears the other cough.
Yeah? Well. What of it…
One side is cold, sometimes, in a marriage, she said. One eye does all the weeping....
We'd remain married. I would see to that. One life would not be long enough for my revenge.
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I'd blow up the world if given it…to even every score…don't take your anger and resentment out on me only because I took the villain's part for once and tried to understand him…we love to think victim, weep victim…what of the beater's calluses,the beater's weary arms?
“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” (A Temple of Texts)
✒️ #WilliamHGass, American novelist and philosopher, was #BOTD 30 July 1924. #Literature #Philosophy
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#WilliamHGass
I shall have to get a set at Sears: shovels, picks, hoes...might as well make digging this tunnel as easy as possible.…
I instinctively understood why Alice went after the rabbit…the tunnel, all the other side, was more attractive than either glass or rabbit.
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#WilliamHGass
reality permits us to believe anything or its opposite…both at the same time…allows us to be stupid…blind without any special penalty...Reality suffers fools...reality does not punish wickedness...No,reality really doesn't give a shit;the truth plainly doesn't matter a damn.
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#WilliamHGass
…she nevertheless pinned her hopes with exactly the same chance for success as anyone would who tried to drive a nail into a passing cloud- a son to whom she threw her soul at considerable peril, like a stone into a paper boat.
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#WilliamHGass
And what do I do? I stumble to my desk and try….when I write about myself, is it truly the truth I want? What do I want? to find out who I am? What is the good of that? I want to feel a little less uneasy. We drag our acts behind us like a string of monsters.
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
- William H. Gass
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"Just once l'd like to save Virginia Woolf from drowning. Hart Crane.”
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“…and a fine round line of Keats, Hart Crane, or Yeats produced in me the same effect- a moan throughout my molecules….”
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Though I trip myself up, what skins when I fall? Nice. So I protested to myself. Ah- nice. Nice. How many were engaged in that dispute? How many of me were there in those days? in the streets of my youth? in the slow soft life?
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…shaped the way the first dumb lump of clay was slapped to speech in the divine grip. We were late among the living…by the time God got to us…Haven't I always maintained that our several ribs were the incriminating print of a bedeviled and embittered fist?
blue skies with mountain backdrop—double exposure
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Sunday… books in bed day! #sunday #sundaychill #books #booksinbed #gariellelutz #williamhgass #haroldbrodkey #rilke #alejandrapizarnik
Reading update:
#péternádas #abookofmemories - just finished!
#gariellelutz #thecompletegarylutz - ongoing
#williamhgass #thetunnel - starting today!
