Future me (from the Dylan subreddit)
“I See the Birds” — beautiful new song by Jon Guerra. If only more devotional music (that’s Jon’s phrase for what he does) sounded like this.
Finished reading: Perplexing Plots by David Bordwell. A really remarkable book, which argues — employing an astonishingly wide range of examples — that the kinds of narrative experimentation typically associated with avant-garde literature was in fact largely pioneered in pop culture: genre fiction, movies, radio drama, etc. 🎥
My father in Christ really knows how to put the spiritual pressure on.
I am unusually sensitive to loud and abrasive sounds, so I am particularly interested to see how sound design can contribute to calm environments (or, more often, contribute to my misery).
The great John Fuller writes about Auden’s Shield of Achilles. He’s not quite persuaded by my argument about the organization of the book, but he’s not dismissive either. The main point here is how good the poems are.
I wrote about what a bad writer Freeman Wills Crofts is, but basically I just wanted the chance to use the phrase “Fang Apparatus.”