Saffie Monsoon: Major motion pictures are made, huge concerts are put on in stadiums. I mean, five hundred thousand troops were mobilized in the Gulf, and a war fought and won in less time, and without everyone included having a nervous breakdown and being sent flowers! It cannot be that difficult!
Edina Monsoon: Darling, every troop [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Transcribed Passages//’
February 8, 2010
A Quote to Explain your Absolutely Fabulous Fashion (work) Week.
October 14, 2009
Prose to Poetry in Miss Lonelyhearts.
I once asked a poet how she writes poems. Her answer: very, very carefully. For some reason, this response always brings me back to Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts. I first heard about this book when Flannery O’Connor mentioned it in her collection of essays, Mysteries and Manners. For a short story writer of her supreme [...]
August 27, 2009
A Few Bars of Ragtime.
A few passages from the beginning of EL Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime, transcribed for landscape and setting purposes, with all materials pertaining to matters outside the realm of landscape/setting segregated by double brackets. I feel like a troglodyte for even saying this, but if you haven’t done so yet, you must read and own this book; and then, you must go out [...]
