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“Eliot, 1920 What makes a work of art original?”
“In the narrative-shattering tumult of late-sixties California, that’s precisely, says Didion, what happened.”
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“The excitingness of pure being had withdrawn from them; they were just rather stale literary words.”
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““We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” writes Joan Didion at the start of her essay “The White Album.” Without them, life is just too scary.”
“I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no “meaning” beyond their temporary arrangement.”
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“* Though Eliot’s line is well known, the essay it comes from is less so.”
“As Eliot’s original phrasing reads, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” What about the third way—that of pure invention?”
“All she does, all anyone honest can do, is keep looking, noticing, jotting down impressions, struggling for sense, putting together pieces of the story.”
“We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live was later the title of her book of collected nonfiction, published in 2006.”
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“Thrashing us with the flower in all its petal-patterned freshness, Stein would later boast, “I think that in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years.” * While lecturing at the University of Chicago, Stein was asked what she meant by her rose, to which she replied: “Now listen.”
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“_____________________________________ “Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” –T.S.”
“Every dark event must be absorbed into a broader narrative, every violent act slotted into a legible worldview.”
“When the ferment is too wild, the events too jarring—the violence, quite literally, too senseless?”