why i prefer my favourite writers good and dead
because then they are less likely to do stupid things that ruin their work. relationships with beloved books are as delirious as they are dogged. you know you'll love them 40 years from now, but it's in the same way that you know you'll love her gorgeous tantrums ten years from now. in the heat of the moment, we say things like forever and always. that's the only excuse really for invoking tiresome eternity: you're hot enough that you can make it work.
what you don't need after you've carefully bound a leaf in book and memory for years and years, till it's only a heart-shaped network of veins, is to find out that it's just a very cunning, synthetic imitation of a leaf. it never breathed, it's never even tasted sap. like plunging your face into a bouquet of plastic lillies. ugh about covers it.
garrison keillor did it for me. i fell more and more in love with every sad, nostalgic, and unfailingly gory tale. but turns out the man is only human. and a dumb little uptight one, at that.
he could still redeem himself, though, if he dropped dead right now.
what you don't need after you've carefully bound a leaf in book and memory for years and years, till it's only a heart-shaped network of veins, is to find out that it's just a very cunning, synthetic imitation of a leaf. it never breathed, it's never even tasted sap. like plunging your face into a bouquet of plastic lillies. ugh about covers it.
garrison keillor did it for me. i fell more and more in love with every sad, nostalgic, and unfailingly gory tale. but turns out the man is only human. and a dumb little uptight one, at that.
he could still redeem himself, though, if he dropped dead right now.
posted by Deepa at 5:55 AM
4 Comments:
So what took you so long to realize that he is a cheater, 9 months is a long time...
-Raj
he took this long to declare himself, didn't he. stupid stuffed shirt.
You tortured that poor fello too much. didn't any one told you, he died on 11th Dec 2005. Now the body has a new soul.
-Raj
It has been 163 days since you last talked to him. You just talk about him to all the people around him but never to him directly. He has sent you emails almost 2 /week but you did not respond to him. But you discussed that email with ever one. You have just not tried one thing which is talking openly with him. And you declared him as a cheater. You wished that he drops dead right now. What kind of love is urs in which the other person says no, you start wishing him death.
-Raj
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