Saturday, March 28, 2015

Daily Dose

From Diary, by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Lillian Vallee

AS THINGS ARE NOW

"As things are now, the author, though he is alive, has to pretend he's dead.  I was once present at a fierce discussion between Kott -- and Brieter? -- on what X 'wanted to say' in his last work.  They pelted each other with quotes.  I proposed that they put the question to the author over the telephone and even gave them his number.  They stopped dead in their tracks and in a minute began to talk about something else.  When the problem was reduced to a question over the telephone, it ceased to interest them."

From XIII Monday

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