Showing posts with label Essayism. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Daily Dose

From Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, by Brian Dillon

WIT

"Wit is the art of bringing unlikely things or ideas together, in such a way that the scandal or shock of their proximity arrives alongside a conviction that they have always belonged together."

From On Aphorisms

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Daily Dose


From Essayism: On form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, by Brian Dillon

APHORISM

"The origins of the aphorism are both elevated and abject, as fits a literary form of sublime ambition that is at present in a kind of disgrace."

From page 86