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“There is no surer sign of a great writer than when whole books could be made out of his passing remarks.”

Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg, Aphorismen (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)

I continue to joust with increasingly urgent deadlines, and for now I feel the need to spend such free time as I have (and there isn’t much of it) consuming art instead of writing about it. I will, however, pause to tell you about my recent reading and listening:

“Rather than reading a book in order to criticize it, I would rather criticize it because I have read it, thus paying attention to the subtle yet profound distinction Schopenhauer made between those who think in order to write and those who write because they have thought.”

Miguel de Unamuno, Ensayos (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)

And that’s why work is still keeping me from my blogging.

Making a film is hard too. But the rewards can be considerable:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Back soon!

Am experiencing severe deadline-related problems. Check back with me again tomorrow. Or maybe Wednesday.

“We shouldn’t call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates.”

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Die Anwalte der Literatur (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)

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