Andrew Budden

I have worked in industry and have studied the eighteenth-century novel, among other subjects. The Escalator is my first novel. I live in Devon in the UK.

[IPCallaway @IanCallaway352]

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” #Kafka died today in 1924.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

From Letters to a young poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Whether it's Wordworth's Prelude or Rilke's Duino Elegies, childhood memory is a 'lavish source'.

[saba zahoor. @SabaDesiderata]

“And even if you were in a prison whose walls did not let any of the sounds of the world outside reach your senses- would you not have your childhood still, this marvellous, lavish source, this treasure-house of memories?

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity.”

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"'The Castle' by Kafka remains for me today the most beautiful secret in literature."

Literature laureate László Krasznahorkai explains how his introduction to the work of Franz Kafka as a child sparked his interest in literature. He says, "Without Kafka, I would never be a writer."

Watch our full interview: https://t.co/crlwX95Kk1

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Roberto Bolaño on his favorite poet and on what poetry is

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@DemocritusSr @Poochigian Interestingly, in Poetry Extra on BBC Radio 4 Extra this week, hosted by Daljit Nagra, Michael Symmons Roberts in an imagined correspondence with a young poet, simply returns her poem to her in his own handwriting. It is a similar approach.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@JohnSchoffstall @PublicDomainRev Interesting. One could argue that the jury is still out on all four of these names; Henry George, Malthus, Paul Ehrlich and Swift!

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

Marionettes and puppets are an often subversive stringed or silhouette tradition and art – spanning both history and cultures – that most of us know too little about. Read this groundbreaking and scholarly book here:
https://t.co/YDX1fUUIa9

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

Yes. This is well described. There is a balance here between classicism and feeling.

[José L Ben @bengeologist]

The vegetation does not hide the granite rock; it complements it, as though the landscape itself had found a balance between biological resilience and geological immensity. Life does not conquer the stone, nor does the stone crush life; the two coexist in equilibrium.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

No one like Sophocles to show us the brutality of power and its human consequences.

[. ꡙ . @thymele33x]

𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙖. Epidaurus, 1961

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

Borges understands how languages work so much better than me.

[Jan Kuitenbrouwer @kuitenbrouwer]

Fascinating. Nooit bij stilgestaan.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@ven_pauline @kuitenbrouwer @InadeBree Fascinating. Yes. Can we think at all without words or language?

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@MrNeilScott Fascinating. I wonder if anyone has made a similar diagram for the last chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses, starting, 'Yes because he never did a thing like that before...' and ending, '...and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.'

[Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) @paris_critical]

"Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.” — Ali Smith 🎈

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between House of Have and House of Want, progress is not real” — Henry George, Poverty & Progress, 1879 https://t.co/k01L7MhLEm

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@kalmantibs Lovely. Our most pterodactyl-like bird.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

Are there any Nietzsche scholars out there? Is it a correct paraphrasing of Nietzsche to say that love, like music, has to be learned? Or is his position more complicated than this?

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@matthewbdexter Thank you for posting this. As well as the acoustics, another admirable quality of waves is that they care nothing about the state of the world!

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

I love this mapping of colour and music whilst also believing that both visual art and music, unlike some other disciplines such as science and perhaps philosophy, are no sticklers for the facts.

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

David Ramsay Hay’s mapping of colour onto musical notes, a diagram from his The Laws of Harmonious Colouring (1838).⠀More in @carmelrazmusic's essay “Music of the Squares” on a Hay's attempt to use music theory to evaluate visual beauty — https://t.co/TLHVGHIEao

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

@thelonningsguy A different setting but Ibsen's quote reminds me of Hardy's 'At Castle Boterel':
Primaeval rocks form the road's steep border,
And much have they faced there, first and last,
Of the transitory in Earth's long order;
But what they record in colour and cast
Is - that we two passed.

[Andrew Budden @AndrewBudden2]

Nicely expressed by Haruki Marakami and Yogi Berra. A possibly related philosophical question: What are the other places doing while you are occupying the place that you have chosen to occupy or been landed with?

[David @adavidsouthard]

I prefer the way the baseball’s Yogi Berra phrased it: "No matter where you go, there you are".