August 3-8
August 3.
Seneca: “This is an adultery against the state, to have sex under trophies of Miltiades.”
In each story, a world ends. The writer who can answer “why” understands the book.
August 4.
The future is always grotesque, because the future is the triumph of life in one form or another.
August 5.
Roving closer to the source—Potosi minerals—thousands lost down the mine shaft—heaving a rusty cutlass, just east of El Dorado.
August 6.
Certain types of music are dead because the types of emotions underpinning them are dead.
August 7.
The next act must be creative—the next act must be an act.
