Some Big Broad

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awhile to read a sentence over again it is so much like one of my sen tences. Uses three dots liberally?just like me and Celine ... John Cage suggests that the hard work of the serious artist is equivalent to playing chess. Why do you play chess all the time, I can hear some father say ing. It's time to grow up and go to work. Like somebody might have told Fragonard, Drop that pink paint brush! Or Mozart? Why must you always compose in pink? ... Mozart, your nudes will live after you. Edith Oravez has brought them to life. Drop your pink brush. That's what people tell me. Lafe said, But how does your hero make his money? But Tm on the ground floor of the revolution of the novel. More Juno! Catullus' title. That's all right. Something was going on then. I thought it was over and I was only hanging on, that's what I thought, kicking a dead horse. I should know better. I told myself a long time ago. Keep kicking the dead horse. You never know where you might get to! I told myself! The modern novel a monster. Robbe Grillet has puffed me full of confidence. Yes, yes, Tm an exponent of the nouveau roman ... any school that will have me ... my own influ ence felt around here ... I hope it widens ... a celestial body ... exploding, spiraling nova ... that's me .. .on fire ... yeah yeah yeah! Going for bear, yeah! Into the fray ... and all of that... back to back ... coming going along ... I like it like that... Celine has shown us how ... (from letters to the editor and Renata Is Crying: A Nostalgia for Mona and Those Times)