I just read a commencement speech for Kenyon College from 2005. (http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html)
The ideas were really cool (if slightly incohesive) but I thought the writing could be better.
When did I turn into a seventeen year old literary snob, and can I please please reverse that?
I can't be going around discontented with normal writing forever. I've just been spoiled by the good stuff, I guess... Maybe we just have to hope that the good stuff never runs out.
Here's to the future of verbal expression!
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I guess this is sort of about my life.
The fun part is that I don't have one.
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- last book read >> Fahrenheit 451. I liked it tons better this time around.
- current solitaire record >> 87 seconds
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on Trying to shift from stercus to aureum:
"I absolutely love re-reading what I can come up with, just like dogs love eating their own shit. Maybe, if I practice enough, I could actually do something with this. Maybe one day I'll crap out diamonds."