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Art is one of the ways we reveal the peculiarities of consciousness – for me it’s the clearest way. It’s through other people’s novels,other people’s paintings, other people’s poems & other people’s music that I am made aware that everybody is not like anyone else, and yet we are all stuck inside these flesh cages, experiencing what we imagine to be a shared reality through a radically singular medium: consciousness.
— Dec 21, 2025 05:57AM
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Whenever I consider the very many writers who have left their mark on my writing in one way or another, I am reminded that you do not need to be perfectly aligned with someone to be in their debt. See also: parents.
(introduction to obituaries written for Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Hillary Mantel)
— Dec 21, 2025 02:08AM
(introduction to obituaries written for Joan Didion, Martin Amis, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Hillary Mantel)
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Dec 21, 2025 06:18AM
What your impression of this collection, dear Ilse? I’ve read her previous ones and some essays in this one when they were published elsewhere, but so far I am not convinced about reading the whole.
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