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p.s. Hey. ** James Bennett, Hi. Well, I guess I meant that’s where the central dialogue takes place? Writing once written is you but not you and is only focused on understanding you? I don’t know. What you said, basically. It’s all about finding your limits, no? By continually testing them and seeing how far you can grow them? If you do that, you find your originality. I find that exhilarating rather than depressing. I always find that I can do more than I had imagined I could. Anyway, coffee, yes, hit me up when the time feels right. ** magkneesiumm, For sure. I co-make films, as I’m sure you know, and it’s confusing and depressing when people think what’s unique about our films is the films’ problem and not their restrictive idea of what a film should be. I quit university after one year, and I’ve never taking fiction writing courses ever for the very reason you mention. Again, people seeing or reading what they’re not used to or unfamiliar with as a problem instead of a possible adventure. Olivia Newton-John impersonators, wow. They must exist. I’m sure I’ve seen some perky blonde drag queens doing ‘Xanadu’ at least. You guys get really serious summers in Texas. I feel whiny complaining about ours. I have a friend in Houston who’s been sending me SOS filled texts. Have a very doable day. ** _Black_Acrylic, Your brother liked ‘RT’ too? Cool. I’ll take that as a victory. Based on that line up, you are truly a great teacher. ** Adem Berbic, Glad you’re safely ensconced, but that heat, yow. I’ve read very little Lacan. Formally bracing aligns with my memory. Everything’s transient, I guess, although books are also like rocks, but even less worthless? ** Dominik, Hi!!! Oh, a quickie. I’ll take it! I’m not sure when we’ll head to Norway. We had dreams of extending the trip and hitting a bunch of Scandinavian theme parks, but I don’t think we can afford that at the moment. Luckily the city where the festival is has one of our favorite theme parks on its outskirts: Kongeparken. That’s the park where, when we visited it some years ago now, almost all of the employees were Emo and Goth teens. Probably not true anymore. Sadly. So likely we’ll head up there a day or two before the festival screening on the 28th. I’ll be curious tp hear if you feel a tenable difference in Hungary now that the new regime seems to have righted a bunch of the old wrongs. Have an amazing time! Love will be your waterer if he can. It’s August, there’s nothing much else going on. Love wondering how different he would be if he’d grown up in Russia, G. ** Steve, Greaves was kind of all over the place, but even when the films aren’t so inspired, there’s usually great footage in them. I still haven’t read ‘2666’. I know, I know, but it’s so long. Nice about your friend. I just saw a visiting friend yesterday who I haven’t seen since at least the early 90s. So interesting how our physical forms have changed but what passes between those forms hasn’t changed at all. ** laura w, Hi. Murdoch is terrific. ‘The Piano Teacher’, yes, another good one. I did a spotlight post about it that I should really restore. I’m guessing you’ve read my very favorites: Quin, Compton-Burnett, Brooke-Rose. I’m blanking on the Perec adapted film. I’ll look it up. Seems like I would have watched it. Dead drips! Muted co-workers? ** HaRpEr //, Oh, cool, you saw ‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm’, so good. Yeah, all that finessing needs to happen once the gush is in place for me. Then I just treasure hunt. ‘In Transit’, yay, so good. Very true about the sidelining, of course, but it also blows my mind that a lot of those writers were actually quite successful and widely read when they publishing their books. It gives me some hope about a potential UK readership. No equivalent in the US. Except I guess for some of the meta-fiction novelists back in the 60s & 70s. But they were all men. Of course. ** Joe, Hi, Joe! I’m good except for the summer heat. How are you, man? My email (the outlook one) is still the same, so that should work. Cool that ILP is doing those two reprints of yours! Take care, maestro. ** Okay. The post I have restored for you today is really, really old, like really old. See you tomorrow.