Coincidentally, Laurie Stone mentioned Hegel in her post today. She had found a quote from him, which cheered her up. Her husband said, "Hegel is well known for cheering people up." A joke? Maybe. But in case it wasn't, I'm going down the Hegel rabbit hole, starting here, to see if it will work for me. Any thoughts?
Thanks for sharing this. For anyone interested in this playing with the factual and the fictional, I recommend ‘Reality Hunger’ by David Shields, which I’m about half way through. It’s from 2010 and even then he says that an artistic movement was forming, with one key component being ‘a blurring (to the point of invisibility) of any distinction between fiction and nonfiction: the lure and blur of the real.’
The ghostwriter is not only a literary problem. People manage it without a book in it. Tell the account of a stretch of your life often enough and it gets smoother than the memory, until the smooth one is the only one you can reach. You can hear when it has happened. The story arrives with the pauses already in the right places.
Coincidentally, Laurie Stone mentioned Hegel in her post today. She had found a quote from him, which cheered her up. Her husband said, "Hegel is well known for cheering people up." A joke? Maybe. But in case it wasn't, I'm going down the Hegel rabbit hole, starting here, to see if it will work for me. Any thoughts?
Good luck!!
Now that's funny!
Thanks for sharing this. For anyone interested in this playing with the factual and the fictional, I recommend ‘Reality Hunger’ by David Shields, which I’m about half way through. It’s from 2010 and even then he says that an artistic movement was forming, with one key component being ‘a blurring (to the point of invisibility) of any distinction between fiction and nonfiction: the lure and blur of the real.’
Oh sounds interesting thanks
The ghostwriter is not only a literary problem. People manage it without a book in it. Tell the account of a stretch of your life often enough and it gets smoother than the memory, until the smooth one is the only one you can reach. You can hear when it has happened. The story arrives with the pauses already in the right places.