Status Updates From Artful

this update is for sam embray- in this book she’s reading someone’s bad handwriting and he’s discussing literature and she reads it as ‘italian cumin’ and i still immediately knew it was italo calvino. this is your doing!!

“Then you'd say words I'd never heard of, words that didn't really sound like they were words. It was good, that things didn't have to mean. It was a relief. It was strangely intimate, too, you speaking to me and me having no idea what you were saying.

Guide a ruckus, you said now. Trav a brose. Spoo yat tacky. Clot so. Scoofy.

Tell me what else happens, I said. Say more things
like that.”

😭😭

The poem made of famous poem’s first lines 😭😭 I adore Ali Smith… no one gets her like me

“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. Books need time to dawn on us, it takes time to understand what makes them, structurally, in thematic resonance, in afterthought, and always in correspondence with the books which came before them, because books are produced by books more than by writers.”