“Oulipians are into literary bondage. Their fetish is predicated on the notion that writing is always constrained by something, be it simply time or language itself. The solution, in their view, is not to try, quixotically, to abolish constraints, but to acknowledge their presence, and embrace them proactively.”
Andrew Gallix, writing in The Guardian.
“I have always known that I work quickly. My work whether text, visual or sound poems, essays, or whatever else emerges in brief intense bursts. I simply assumed that this was a flaw, that high quality work could only be reached through laborious and extended processes. Education and other aspects of the culture tended to support this belief…But it’s only in the last week that I’ve begun to think that this might not be a fault, it might just be the condition of my mind, the way that I work best. I think part of the reason is there’s a kind of moral supposition that the more carefully thought-out something is the better it is. We distrust pleasure, are suspicious of fun and things that seem effortless.”
Matt Dalby, here.
“Recollection in tranquillity, not derangement of the senses, is the sine qua non of good writing…the digital age has simply compounded a problem caused by the increasing hegemony of one school of writing (the Ionic) over another (the Platonic).”
Andrew Gallix, here.
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