#self negation

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

When I was at Harvard in the late 1940s, E. M. Forster delivered a lecture. I dutifully brought up one of my E. M. Forster volumes to be signed. He crossed out his name on the title page and wrote “E. M. Forster.” I thought, “This is the way all authors do this.” As far as I know, E. M. Forster and myself are the only ones that do.

Edward Gorey • A Gorey Encounter, Speak, Fall 1997 • Ed Pinsent

[microwavecookingforone]

It’s a risky move to send a passage of Eros the Bittersweet to the beautiful woman you just fell in love with. Good thing I’m not a risky man.

[danskjavlarna]

Here’s a book that seeks to destroy its very title and to put itself out of date.  From The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

[thephilosophiles-blog]

now I know why I get so tired so suddenly. I want to do a bunch of things but I need a nap.

there is only so long you will get away with denying yourself what you want and what you need

I want a nap. I also need a nap. this is the new thing in my life. understanding. these concepts about want and need being the same thing for me after all.