donald barthelme

anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world

[donald barthelme @donb]

Today is my birthday. Please enjoy The Great Hug. http://t.co/5VRbqSOLr8

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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

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“The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.”

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“The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.”

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“How can you be alienated without first having been connected?”

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See the moon? It hates us.

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@bwl @dhf @lethargilistic @bennykenny78 👋🏻

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@DavveroDomini @knownemily @lithub Just barely active.

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@DonAndrewBailey @paulsbohm Still using it, just not often. Sorry!

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Padgett Powell on his mentor Donald Barthelme | Tin House via @ElectricLit https://t.co/AqjDLVEVDD

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"I am never needlessly obscure—I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure."

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Swallowing: http://blog.mattlanger.com/post/3472375309

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Update you might like. Barthelme story from Cavalier Magazine 1963, pseudonymous.
http://www.librarian.net/tempo/Houston-Cavalier-1963.pdf

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I had given her a personal adorment allowance. Anything in the world she wanted so long as it was made out of hair.

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Always talk to the oldest lady at the party--then you will have the best time.

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"The human condition is a fundamnetal datum.... It is immutable, fixed and changeless."

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"Not a dream, sir, not a dream. Engineers, sir, never sleep, and dream only in the daytime."

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"Sir, it is not necessary to use dialect when being telephone-called from the state of Arkansas."

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"I believe it all. It's impossible not to believe. That's what makes things so difficult"

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Perhaps one day I shall be able to change myself into a hungrier being. Probably not.