Monday, January 26, 2009

I Have Come to a Conclusion

I have come to the conlusion that all the best writers write in a grammatical person and grammatical voice called the First Person Impossible Reflexive.

All the best sentences in all the best books are in the First Person Impossible Reflexive.

Dead Philip Whalen confirms that, "Why, of course Bill, it's in all the grammars of the dead. First person impossible reflexive. I speak in it constantly. You're only now noticing this? Yeesh."

The Dead can be so fucking sarcastic.

"Je est un autre.

Or Beckett's "Think, pig!

DPW: "The people from good homes are talking this year..."

You're an asshole, Philip. And your Bowie impression sucks donkey ass.

DPW: Sue me. I'm insured by Charles Schulz in the afterlife. He gives me Charlie Brown- and Snoopy-shaped dog biscuits every time I stop in. An affable enough fellow..

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