Thursday, December 01, 2005
s c r o l l d o w n f o r t h e a c t u a l i n t e r v i e w ..........
Another View:
'Interviews can be a form of living death, and Samuel Beckett once declined to be interviewed, saying to his friend: Not even for you, and in any case, I have no views to inter'.
More than just a playful play on words (inter-view), his use of the word 'inter' also referenced Death itself.
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Wordsworth: 'every author, as far as he is great and at the same time original, has had the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed: so it has been, so it will continue to be.'
Eliot: 'to be original with a minimum of alteration, is sometimes more distinguished than to be original with a maximum of alteration.' AND
'verse, whatever else it may or may not be, is itself a system of punctuation; the usual marks of punctuation themselves are differently employed.'
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Another View:
'Interviews can be a form of living death, and Samuel Beckett once declined to be interviewed, saying to his friend: Not even for you, and in any case, I have no views to inter'.
More than just a playful play on words (inter-view), his use of the word 'inter' also referenced Death itself.
--
Wordsworth: 'every author, as far as he is great and at the same time original, has had the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed: so it has been, so it will continue to be.'
Eliot: 'to be original with a minimum of alteration, is sometimes more distinguished than to be original with a maximum of alteration.' AND
'verse, whatever else it may or may not be, is itself a system of punctuation; the usual marks of punctuation themselves are differently employed.'
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