Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Monday, June 13, 2005 The Pitch: It's like The Fantastic Four meets Der Ubermensch! Making my morning circuit of the web led to some inspiring quotes I thought I'd share.First from Ed Cunard's interview with comics reporter/critic/essayist/author Tom Spurgeon: What do you think creators today can learn from [Stan] Lee's work, either as a comics creator or as a promotional force? Spurgeon goes on to mention essayist/author Carter Scholz as an influence, and that Scholz had recently written an appreciation of Thomas Pynchon in the recent issue of Bookforum. Googling that, I ended up at a Bookforum page for that issue where a meandering essay on Gravity's Rainbow by Gerald Howard eventually settles in to dishing behind the scenes dirt on the editing and marketing of that book. I particularly like the part where Pynchon asks his editor's assistant what she thinks of the manuscript ("It's quite long," she explained, to which Pynchon replied proudly, "I typed it all myself, you know.") But the real inspirational paydirt is a quote from Pynchon to his editor during the editing of V: "I do not, frankly, know dick about writing novels yet and need all kinds of help." Admittedly, maybe it's just that kind of morning, but I'd love to get that line tattooed across my forehead (and maybe the Stan Lee fact tattooed on, I dunno, one knee so I can see it every time I hang down my head in defeat). In other non-news, I had a very long and involved dream that Edi and I had moved into the dorms at San Francisco State. I think I dreamed such because the idiots next door use our/their front step exactly the way dormitory hallways are used: as the perfect place to stage loud and inane conversations at 4:00 a.m. But maybe also because discussing post-marital plans with Edi (or rather, our shared awe and suspicion at other newlyweds and newlyweds-to-be who actually claim to have any), I subconsciously realized that getting hitched would be my biggest leap into the unknown since arriving at the San Francisco dorms twenty years ago. posted by Jeff Lester | 11:15 AM | |
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