| A Minor Metaphor
... we know that we use
Only the eye as faculty, that the mind
Is the eye, and that this landscape of the mind
Is a landscape only of the eye; and that
We are ignorant men incapable
Of the least, minor, vital metaphor....
-- Wallace Stevens, "Crude Foyer"
... So, so,
O son of man, the ignorant night, the travail
Of early morning, the mystery of the beginning
Again and again,
while History is unforgiven.
-- Delmore Schwartz,
"In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave" |
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| Storiesfor Mary Karr"In reality, my prose booksprobably sit betweenI Was a Teenage Sex Slaveand some other contemporarymemoir written in five minutes...."-- Mary Karr in the NY Timesof July 6, 2007 See also Ballet Blanc and the true story 0, 1, 2, 3, ....
"In a dream scenario, my memoirs...would find another shelf.They’d sit between St. Augustine and Nabokov’s Speak, Memory...."-- Mary Karr, loc. cit.Recall themnemonic rhyme"Nine is a Vine."
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| Teaser head from the
online NY Times
this morning:
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