tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3592406912292930675..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Condor Wing 8: about mary (Into the Future) / Wittgenstein's Wristwatch / Message from the CaptainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74737887247494706752017-12-17T00:16:17.456-08:002017-12-17T00:16:17.456-08:00It will be apparent from the bit I've quoted t...It will be apparent from the bit I've quoted that The Room is a truly scary book. It's honest in ways writers aren't supposed to be honest... uncomfortable-making ways, that is. Selby said it took him ten years after publication to get up the nerve to read it. That is not hard to understand.<br /><br />‘Well, anyway, time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. Just flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. Thats the only reason for time.”TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46954931769256522132017-12-16T23:56:25.608-08:002017-12-16T23:56:25.608-08:00Some (most) days there is nothing I would rather d...Some (most) days there is nothing I would rather do than inhabit a vastly different world. Donors of vastly different worlds, apply to this space.<br /><br />Unless there's a blistering wind that blows right through the soul and then out again the other side, taking the bones away with it, like the one blowing down the ghost freeway feeder at the moment, in Ontario, Canada, Ontario, Canada, for example, would do quite nicely.<br /><br />Cubby Selby was in the slammer, by the way. (Among the reasons why he was feeling kind of trapped.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26681927696612361922017-12-16T23:47:25.642-08:002017-12-16T23:47:25.642-08:00I don't know why that happened. I don't kn...I don't know why that happened. I don't know why anything happens. <br /><br />Not dear Stuart's fault!!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60656324552712894692017-12-16T23:45:16.333-08:002017-12-16T23:45:16.333-08:00This comment was eaten by the machine.
Stuart Ros...This comment was eaten by the machine.<br /><br />Stuart Ross has left a new comment on your post "Condor Wing 8: about mary (Into the Future) / Witt...":<br /><br />Continuing gratitude to you, Tom, for your curation, thought, sensibility; for making me look at writings by the likes of Hubert Selby Jr in jarringly new ways; for reminding me day after day that there is a vastly different world out there from the one I inhabit in Ontario, Canada.<br /><br />Stuart Ross<br /><br />A living being says Thank you, Stuart!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32309556249807178272017-12-16T09:11:53.234-08:002017-12-16T09:11:53.234-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Stuart Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08548545554609320939noreply@blogger.com