When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that … - Blake Butler
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that …
- Blake Butler
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou… - Blake Butler
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou…
So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si… - Blake Butler
So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si…
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl… - Blake Butler
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl…
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one… - Blake Butler
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one…
I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical… - Blake Butler
I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical…
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. - Blake Butler
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing… - Blake Butler
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing…
My love is inside me where my fat was. - Blake Butler
My love is inside me where my fat was.
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