The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any need for… - Gary Lutz
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any need for…
- Gary Lutz
What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life. - Gary Lutz
What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. - Gary Lutz
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.
I was a great many far cries from myself. - Gary Lutz
I was a great many far cries from myself.
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing… - Gary Lutz
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing…
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's … - Gary Lutz
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's …
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occas… - Gary Lutz
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occas…
I've been within an inch of my life. - Gary Lutz
I've been within an inch of my life.
If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar. - Gary Lutz
If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
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