11-05-2023, 03:31 AM
There's that essay or interview where Theodore Roethke's advice is to emulate the Greats, and your originality will lie in your failure.
Besides the Andy Kaufman reference, there is a book on the Theater of the Absurd with an essay on Jean Genet. The essay isn't important, but it mentions someone being lost in a house of mirrors and a crowd gathering outside and watching the person and his pathetic fumbles.
There is also an essay I wrote years ago from the point of view of a hostile critic savagely belittling my writing. I used a quotation from Genet under the title of the essay where he talks about using your own works and ideas as target practice, creating an art with a self-destruct built-in mechanism.
Why did I write this post? Who knows?
Besides the Andy Kaufman reference, there is a book on the Theater of the Absurd with an essay on Jean Genet. The essay isn't important, but it mentions someone being lost in a house of mirrors and a crowd gathering outside and watching the person and his pathetic fumbles.
There is also an essay I wrote years ago from the point of view of a hostile critic savagely belittling my writing. I used a quotation from Genet under the title of the essay where he talks about using your own works and ideas as target practice, creating an art with a self-destruct built-in mechanism.
Why did I write this post? Who knows?