08-05-2011, 10:40 AM
Then I no longer feel guilty about not finishing books and can chuck Wuthering fucking Heights
I don't know why I kept clinging to a belief in its brilliance. It's beautifully written, and has inspired some good poems in me, but by God the Brontes were pretentious. But seeing as you're an intelligent man and not yet a daft old dribbler who reads the Daily Mail in his pants, I can stop the self-flagellation
I don't know why I kept clinging to a belief in its brilliance. It's beautifully written, and has inspired some good poems in me, but by God the Brontes were pretentious. But seeing as you're an intelligent man and not yet a daft old dribbler who reads the Daily Mail in his pants, I can stop the self-flagellation
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe