Jacob Lawrence, "Interior Scene" (1937)
Jacob Lawrence, Interior Scene (1937)
Can a Game Be Literature?

Mark's Pages

June 12, 2010:

Those journals are bitchy, and they're mean. They complain and they put people down.

I understand. The goal was to be "critical", in Marx's sense. A ruthless critique of everything existing. But it was unskilled, and the naive language of that groping was inevitably that of everyday snittiness.

I don't think I ever was that person. But I certainly sounded like him.