Category: Bottom’s Dream
-
Authenticity/”Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”/Other ephemera
I- Moaning, the ukulele, and podcasts The reason I haven’t written anything in a moment is because, well, I haven’t been inspired to. It’s a kind of failure: if you’re writing, you should write. I play the ukulele, an instrument that gets a lot of crap for no particularly good reason. I’m an intermediate player,…
-
Obligations/What I am Reading/White Whale
As will sometimes happen, life has caught up with me a little, and illness and obligations mean this week’s “long entry” is delayed a bit. I’m working on one about the novel “Blindsight”, which I recommend for sci-fi nerds in particular, and other folk in general— you can read it for free here. Kindle tells…
-
“Bottom’s Dream”/“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”/Finishing or not finishing something you hate
“Tekeli-li!” I got a copy of “Bottom’s Dream” on the secondhand market; Dalkey Archives sold out ages ago. The book got a print run of 2.500. My copy was still in shrink-wrap, unopened. No one had read it. I once remember reading a review of Morton Feldman’s “Second String Quartet” which was released in a…
The Lithole 