On 31/7/05 10:43 AM, "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is very little I do "for love" anymore. I started writing at age
> 46 from sheer compulsion and desperation, and that is what keeps me
> coming back to it long after the illusions of being on Terri Gross's
> interview show "Fresh Air" have departed like this morning's methane
> moment.
Strange, Ken; that you say this saddens me. (Although love can be a
compulsion and desperation as much as anything else). What else but love
challenges the self to acknowledge its humilities and poverties, to reach
out into the world around it, to attempt to climb past its own blindnesses?
As for "recognition" - isn't that really a desire, not for fame, which is a
tawdry coin, but to be understood?
(Btw, what's this about "undergraduate women"? Are you speaking about some
kind of intellectual groupie? And how can writing be, in its essence, an
aspect of competitiveness, when the acme of writing is always achieving what
is possible for no one else to achieve; by which I mean that writing, if it
is competitive in some sense, can only be so in relation to oneself? But I
suppose I think of Giacometti - success, failure, are secondary...)
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
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