My Apology to Others Than Myself

Apology

I digressed mercilessly after that in various ways in three locations on the Internet and after Carol Novack died.  I shall strive not to digress in notations and to make sense in notations and to reserve digression for my primary creative work.  Digression disgusts human beings, as I learned. I did not only digress.

Conflict

Conflict seems to interest all people who are interested in writing. I feel that when conflict arises in social settings that relate to writing, people in those settings become Characters in each other's minds, but without the grandeur of Characters and with far too much Free Will, layered thinly, especially online, to fit inside a meaningful plot or story. It may seem a comedy of broken words and easy shots, anything to cause a pinch of pain where causing brotherly or sisterly love is unlikely. The writer ought to attempt, at least in their Real Work, as Gary Snyder has called it, to bring awarenessof human feeling, including charity, friendship, and anger at power structures that hurt the environment, economy, and familiesto the table. An unwanted guest at the table requires tolerance, patience, and compassion and it may elicit intolerance, impatience, and gossip to have an unwanted person nearveiled meanness instead of unity and understanding.

Michel de Montaigne wrote that he never said anything worse of a man than to him.
July 3, 2013

My paragraph as I wrote it above is not about art. It is about faux fiction taking place away from the page, the fictive mind of the group creating it of thin stuff, without fiction's grandeur. Lorrie Moore described fiction as having grandeur in a review of three memoirs in the New York Review of Books.
July 4, 2013
Accuracy is diligence

... on 7/4/13:

The poetry of Tony Sanders is like the poetry of John Ashbery in that there is a slightly confidential tone, as if it were conversational, but the context is not conversational.

... revised on 7/6/13:

The poetry of Tony Sanders is like the poetry of John Ashbery in that there may be a slightly confidential tone, as if conversational, but the context is not conversational.


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... on 6/30/13:

(1/2) 10 Feb 88 "Q has no part in any of this, save to say be proud but be cautious. My counsel to my students and writers in matters ..."

(2/2) "of this kind is to remind them of Jack Warner's observation that writers are schmucks with Underwoods."Gordon Lish to Ann Bogle


... on 7/3/13:

Unless you are willing to portray others, you must hold to self-portraiture or otherwise eliminate humans from the fiction landscape.

... on 7/4/13:

Tony Sanders' poetry is like Ashbery's in that there is a slightly confidential tone, as if conversational, but the context isn't of speech.

... on 7/6/13:

Tony Sanders' poetry is like Ashbery's in that there may be a confidential tone, as if conversational, but the context isn't conversational.

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