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| Blog Name: | the (new) dekatch pages |
| Url: | http://thedekatchpages.blogspot.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | chicago, poetry, politics |
| Description: | pomes, rants, takes, journals. A collection as messy as my home. |
| Popularity: | 105 Followers |
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Things I Learned Reading Hemingway
-- Don’t be impressed by one’s titles, accomplishments, etc (“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that ...”).-- Don’t live vicariously. Just live.-- A good man may know his limitations, but that’s no excuse to walk the line as long as you’re honest with yourself and others.-- Tell it like it is. Don’t sugarcoat it. Don’t go around comparing her to a summer’s day. Save your breath. She knows that’s bullshit. “She was damned good-looking” takes less time and space and says miles beyond any archaic, verbose sonnet.-- Keep your writing friends separate from yo
-- Don’t be impressed by one’s titles, accomplishments, etc (“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that ...”).-- Don’t live vicariously. Just live.-- A good man may know his limitations, but that’s no excuse to walk the line as long as you’re honest with yourself and others.-- Tell it like it is. Don’t sugarcoat it. Don’t go around comparing her to a summer’s day. Save your breath. She knows that’s bullshit. “She was damned good-looking” takes less time and space and says miles beyond any archaic, verbose sonnet.-- Keep your writing friends separate from yo
hmmmm, bad metaphors & similes ...
so, uh ,,,, my friend, Todd, emails me & some other friends to ask if he should sue this dude for libel ... I say, "Well, I suppose that would depend upon the specific language he used ..." I advised him to leave well enough alone, or at the very most to call dude out on his metaphors/similes ... I mean, to show or tell? To let it happen or to let yourself happen to it?(a few of said examples (no, I, DeKatch, did not, nor ever would I, write such things. Click the link & you'll see):I am as concerned as an eighteen-year-old Swede who has just dropped the soap in the shower of a Brazilian prison.I'm as confused as a blind horn
so, uh ,,,, my friend, Todd, emails me & some other friends to ask if he should sue this dude for libel ... I say, "Well, I suppose that would depend upon the specific language he used ..." I advised him to leave well enough alone, or at the very most to call dude out on his metaphors/similes ... I mean, to show or tell? To let it happen or to let yourself happen to it?(a few of said examples (no, I, DeKatch, did not, nor ever would I, write such things. Click the link & you'll see):I am as concerned as an eighteen-year-old Swede who has just dropped the soap in the shower of a Brazilian prison.I'm as confused as a blind horn
Pleased to Meet Me
i.he sitstranslates Rimbaudcheap desk from Ikeaa dark studio by the lakehe sitsegged on by Spanish reda semester of French in collegeseduced by his TA to guaranteean easy B, resortsto search engines to assistw/the trickier parts, but is surprisedbemused (Breathless)what he’s retainedperhaps from subtitlesin films from Jeunet & GodardBreathless (bemused)I isthe other is notthe author & doesprotocol formeeting oneselfexistonly in dreamsunrequited maybesriff away on Walter Mittyexist
i.he sitstranslates Rimbaudcheap desk from Ikeaa dark studio by the lakehe sitsegged on by Spanish reda semester of French in collegeseduced by his TA to guaranteean easy B, resortsto search engines to assistw/the trickier parts, but is surprisedbemused (Breathless)what he’s retainedperhaps from subtitlesin films from Jeunet & GodardBreathless (bemused)I isthe other is notthe author & doesprotocol formeeting oneselfexistonly in dreamsunrequited maybesriff away on Walter Mittyexist
pleased to meet me, before the clustered corpse
so, on Sunday, at high-noon, I'll be reading with some friends at the Bucktown Arts Festival. It's a collective piece ... basically we each were given the prompt: what happens when you meet yourself? and then we each pieced together our own lines on the idea and then Mr. Barton cut and pasted lines from each of our pieces into a finished corpse. It's pretty cool to see that process unfold, and should be a good time throwing it all together at Holstein's Park in a few days ...
so, on Sunday, at high-noon, I'll be reading with some friends at the Bucktown Arts Festival. It's a collective piece ... basically we each were given the prompt: what happens when you meet yourself? and then we each pieced together our own lines on the idea and then Mr. Barton cut and pasted lines from each of our pieces into a finished corpse. It's pretty cool to see that process unfold, and should be a good time throwing it all together at Holstein's Park in a few days ...
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