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My PhD thesis just passed with no corrections!!
I'm seldom overcome, but today I might just be.
Bernard T. Joy
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Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoy
PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
Joined October 2010
- I think the physicist who speaks of God as a mathematician is almost indistinguishable from the Bronze Age artisan who was most able to visualise God as a worker in clay.What do you think? ✍️
- One thing this marvellous novel teaches us, and I think it is perhaps its most lasting lesson, is that when we lose someone, something, we sometimes work very hard to maintain the pain of the loss because that pain can feel like the only connection we still have to what is lost.Once more, with feeling.
- If you do not write your book the result is simple: you are cursed to see fragments of it everywhere, piecemeal, for the rest of your life.
- Does this ice cream look like it was painted by Francis Bacon or is my visual paranoia playing up again?
- I present to you the abject failure of education in the humanities:
- Can you imagine how ecstatically happy you’d be if after sitting down for a writing session you produced this little slice of genius?
- James Joyce rebutting critics who called Finnegans Wake an assault on the English language, circa 1939:
00:00 - Anyone who has read the books they bought is not serious about buying books.read the books you bought … read the books you bought… read the books you bought.
- Only a real master can risk simplicity. *** Francisco de Goya, ‘The Dog’ (c. 1819–1823)
- I've spent way too long with this book this year. I'm starting to see things.
