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fishing in a bucket

"Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing." - from "The Exiles" by Hilary McKay

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Reading: By The Lake (McGahern); Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories (Ed: Moore) [email me: fishinginabucket at gmail dot com]

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

pure inspiration

I'm still reading and underlining Atonment and White Noise for an essay, but I've also started in on Flannery O'Connor's "Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose", published posthumously in 1969.

Choice quote:
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

Ask me if I kept a straight face in class. Go on, ask.

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