J.A. Carter-Winward
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“they say i write like a man,
like that's supposed to be
the ultimate fucking compliment.
i say i write like a woman
who isn't afraid.”
― No Secrets
like that's supposed to be
the ultimate fucking compliment.
i say i write like a woman
who isn't afraid.”
― No Secrets
“i wasted all of my
outrage on my fucking religion.
it should have been wasted on god-
cut out the middle man.”
― No Apologies
outrage on my fucking religion.
it should have been wasted on god-
cut out the middle man.”
― No Apologies
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“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a drowning, helpless feeling when he glimpsed her beside him in bed: her ropy arms and soft, generous ass. Then he’d folded it in half again, so when he felt desire for Susan, it no longer brought with it an edgy terror of never being satisfied. Then in half again, so that feeling desire entailed no immediate need to act. Then in half again, so he hardly felt it. His desire was so small in the end that Ted could slip it inside his desk or a pocket and forget about it, and this gave him a feeling of safety and accomplishment, of having dismantled a perilous apparatus that might have crushed them both. Susan was baffled at first, then distraught; she’d hit him twice across the face; she’d run from the house in a thunderstorm and slept at a motel; she’d wrestled Ted to the bedroom floor in a pair of black crotchless underpants. But eventually a sort of amnesia had overtaken Susan; her rebellion and hurt had melted away, deliquesced into a sweet, eternal sunniness that was terrible in the way that life would be terrible, Ted supposed, without death to give it gravitas and shape. He’d presumed at first that her relentless cheer was mocking, another phase in her rebellion, until it came to him that Susan had forgotten how things were between them before Ted began to fold up his desire; she’d forgotten and was happy — had never not been happy — and while all of this bolstered his awe at the gymnastic adaptability of the human mind, it also made him feel that his wife had been brainwashed. By him.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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Mike wrote: "Evening, fellow traveler. Many thanks for your friendship request. Here's to mining the literary gems that enhance our lives immeasurably. With all good cheer."
Well, I am glad you responded and now I will do what I said I would and recommend an author. I notice you've read some Roth--he is one of my favorites. I was introduced to the British author, Howard Jacobson, after Roth--saw an interview with him and he was very funny. He was asked to respond to the allegations that he was a cross between Philip Roth and Jane Austin, to which he replied in his very cockney accent, "I am their love child."
Jacobson writes with the "tears of a clown," my favorite style--meaning amid the laughter, he hits you with sudden poignancy that makes you breathless. His new novel, J, is a departure from his usual, and I hear it is dark. I haven't read it yet. My favorites of his areThe Finkler QuestionandThe Act of Love.He won the Man Booker for Finkler.
I saw that you are reviewing a new book, so I expect you're rather busy. But if you get a chance, check out Howard Jacobson.
As for me, I seek out impeccable writing, but I don't like books that leave you feeling disturbed. Books where kids die or creepy things happen. I'm a baby about that;). I don't mind dark--Nemesis, by Roth is one of my favorite books of all time and it's not a happy ending sort, but it didn't leave me feeling...creeped out and disturbed. So that's me. Any recommendations you have would be most welcome!
Cheers!
Well, I am glad you responded and now I will do what I said I would and recommend an author. I notice you've read some Roth--he is one of my favorites. I was introduced to the British author, Howard Jacobson, after Roth--saw an interview with him and he was very funny. He was asked to respond to the allegations that he was a cross between Philip Roth and Jane Austin, to which he replied in his very cockney accent, "I am their love child."
Jacobson writes with the "tears of a clown," my favorite style--meaning amid the laughter, he hits you with sudden poignancy that makes you breathless. His new novel, J, is a departure from his usual, and I hear it is dark. I haven't read it yet. My favorites of his areThe Finkler QuestionandThe Act of Love.He won the Man Booker for Finkler.
I saw that you are reviewing a new book, so I expect you're rather busy. But if you get a chance, check out Howard Jacobson.
As for me, I seek out impeccable writing, but I don't like books that leave you feeling disturbed. Books where kids die or creepy things happen. I'm a baby about that;). I don't mind dark--Nemesis, by Roth is one of my favorite books of all time and it's not a happy ending sort, but it didn't leave me feeling...creeped out and disturbed. So that's me. Any recommendations you have would be most welcome!
Cheers!