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what her own fiction should sound like

Really everyone who wins the Nobel Prize does seem overrated. Is this the best anyone can do? you wonder. Note to self, she thinks: Don’t win Nobel Prize. So far there is little danger. Three months ago she sent out her best short story to five publications; the result to date is two perfunctory re…

—p.62 Happiness: Ten Years of n+1 Diana Abbott: A Lesson (41) by Benjamin Kunkel
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metafiction is hysteria

"[...] I love In the Heart of the Country, which I suppose a reviewer would describe as a metafictional novel narrated by an ageing white virgin in a remote corner of South Africa. It’s the best book I know about hysteria and also one of the best metafictions, nor is this a coincidence: metafiction…

—p.57 Diana Abbott: A Lesson (41) by Benjamin Kunkel
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really: why write?

And there was something more: Coetzee seemed so dubious about the possibilities of language-as-communication, preferring instead to consider words as a species of music (cf. Disgrace and Foe for articulations of this properly Viconian idea), that Diana wondered whether she should not give up writin…

—p.56 Diana Abbott: A Lesson (41) by Benjamin Kunkel
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this naked golden light

I am less interested in zombie stories, though, than I am in this neighborhood’s particular light. The thing I most want to tell you is how the sunlight is here, but I don’t know how to describe it. It’s obviously the same sun that lights the rest of the city, but there is something different about…

—p.362 How to Quit (336) by Kristin Dombek
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this is the diamond of the mind

This is the diamond of the mind, this ability. A lot of people know about it, but I didn’t know about it.

From then on when the panic crept in I could just push over the thread-thin edge to the other side, feeling the way to joy.

Joy is the knowledge that the thread is there.

A thread runs…

—p.361 How to Quit (336) by Kristin Dombek