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Lice In The Locks Of Literature (And Other Curious Quotations)
July 16th, 2011 | Literature, Quotes | journalpulp | 2 Comments
The fact is, I did not eat every day during that period of my life. Said the surrealist Andre Breton, explaining the possible provenance of some of his strange and early literature. They rowed her in across the rolling foam — The cruel, crawling foam — to her grave beside the sea. Wrote the English […]
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Good Stories, Unoriginal Plots, Timeless Themes
July 14th, 2011 | Plot, Style, Theme | journalpulp | 4 Comments
There are 32 ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there’s only one plot: things are not what they seem. – Jim Thompson. Anthony Burgess was slightly less stringent on possible plots: he put the number at about five. What distinguishes one plot from another? Or, to put that question more […]
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Lice In The Locks Of Literature (And Other Curious Quotations)