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		<title>as for my writing</title>
		<link>http://etudesbook.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/as-for-my-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 05:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going.&#8221; - James Richardson Posted in Quotes<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=149&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the unsuccessful artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature (I mean the theory of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=144&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weltanschauung</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Judged at the bar of the reality-principle, the consolations of art are childish, and they reinforce mankind&#8217;s willful refusal to put away childish things. But if man&#8217;s destiny is to change reality until it conforms to the pleasure-principle, and if man&#8217;s fate is to fight for instinctual liberation, then art appears, in the words of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=139&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>brevity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etudesbook.wordpress.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The truth is that the writer of short pieces wants nothing more in this world than to write long texts, interminably long texts in which the imagination does not have to work, in which facts, things, animals and men meet, seek each other out, exist, live together, love, or shed their blood freely without being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=137&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>comaprose</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an otherwise pedestrian essay in this month&#8217;s Poetry, C.K. Williams remarks: &#8220;We all know that when a contemporary painter creates an impressionist painting, no matter how deftly it may be done, no matter how seductive it might appear, it offends, seems at best kitsch, a trivialization, at worst a painful violation, hardly worth being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=134&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>caveat lector</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;approaching every new book with an open mind is as well-meaning but ultimately exhausting as approaching every stranger on the street with open arms; you’ll meet some nice people, sure, but your charming generosity won’t be reciprocated most of the time. What’s worse, a tack-sharp taste, dinged by so much sheer dullness, will in time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=130&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the casket</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://etudesbook.wordpress.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A short story is narrower than a room in a cheap hotel; it is narrower than the wombs through which we descended. It does violence to any large dead man to force him within it. To fit him (even his body) into the casket of a few paragraphs, he must be twisted and contorted; his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=128&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the backhaus recording</title>
		<link>http://etudesbook.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/the-backhaus-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a 1928 recording of Chopin&#8217;s Etudes Op.10 by Wilhelm Backhaus, which, it seems, was the first recording of the complete etudes ever made. It&#8217;s a glorious performance, featuring a  wonderfully meditative rendering of etude no. 3, as well as a surprisingly restless version of etude no. 6. It&#8217;s incredible how a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=125&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>obscurity and art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have been reading Randall Jarrell&#8217;s Selected Essays recently, and can&#8217;t resist sharing a couple of extracts from &#8216;The Obscurity of the Poet&#8217;, if only because they say so lucidly things I&#8217;ve always believed: &#8220;when someone says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t read modern poetry because it&#8217;s all stuff that nobody on earth can understand,&#8221; I know enough to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=122&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in search of an audience</title>
		<link>http://etudesbook.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/in-search-audience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who does (or should) the writer write for? Himself / herself? The public? Art? Posterity? The usual answer to that question is a dichotomy: either you crave fame, recognition and popularity, want your work to reach as wide an audience as possible, and are willing to accommodate your writing to public taste, thus inevitably (or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=etudesbook.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5746447&amp;post=114&amp;subd=etudesbook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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