What do all the great writers have in common?

Post by **e_dog** » February 18th, 2005, 6:51 am

What do all the great writers have in common? (Don't read if stoned.)

They're all dead.

This must be the secret to all great writing.

Also, great writing is that the feeling of which, in images, comes toward you at incompatible mental speeds when you are sleeping or drinking.

Memory is the switch that shifts from insight to sadness, via glee. Coffee is its sole substitute. Time to renounce.

Random access eye movements. Hard drive about to fail the test of rhyme. Go trepidatiously.

Post by **judih** » February 18th, 2005, 6:57 am

great writers are dead

yeah

but some great writers
aren't dead yet

yeah

we get to read em if we're lucky
when we're alive

Post by **e_dog** » February 18th, 2005, 7:20 am

this just in:
comet on path
to strike earth. stop
we're all going
to die. stop

correction:
there's no comet.

Post by **judih** » February 18th, 2005, 7:37 am

no comet?
no comment

Post by **singlemalt** » February 18th, 2005, 11:10 am

premise rejected.

reason?

vonnegut is still alive!!

Post by **e_dog** » February 20th, 2005, 5:17 am

yeah i suppose vonnegut is still alive.

and jean baudrillard.

but thats about it.

anyone disagree?

Post by **Artguy** » February 20th, 2005, 1:23 pm

Drugs

Post by **Zlatko Waterman** » February 20th, 2005, 1:42 pm

Great writers have great memories.

Antonin Artaud could remember every crack in the walls of his asylum cell.

--Z

Post by **stilltrucking** » February 21st, 2005, 1:11 am

Great writers have great memories.

Yes
funny how obvious it seems now that you said it

Post by **e_dog** » February 21st, 2005, 3:46 am

at the time of the original post, at least one great writer was left out: Hunter S. Thompson. But there are sad, sad rumours afoot that he has joined the ranks of Hemingway et al.

Post by **sooZen** » February 25th, 2005, 7:58 am

I know plenty of great writers that aren't dead yet but sadly, they won't be noted 'great' until they're dead...

Gary Snyder is still around, so is Leonard Cohen...sitting in meditation somewheres...

I sleep with a great writer almost every night.

Peace,
SooZen

Post by **singlemalt** » February 25th, 2005, 10:43 am

bbitch --

you sleep with vonnegut??

hee hee. 'sup girlfriend?

Post by **e_dog** » March 1st, 2005, 3:29 am

every crack in the walls of the asylum
corresponds to a crack in artaud's brain

the self is bigger than itself
this is the message of a universe
without warnings
and ends