About
Stephen Sparks | theslightestincident@gmail.com | San Francisco
Like revenge, of which it may be a species, biography is a dish best served cold (i.e., postmortem).
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Extracts
“Personality is only a persistent error.” - Max Jacob
“To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
“One never knows who one is. The others tell you who you are, don’t they? And as you’re told so a million times if you live a long life, in the end you don’t know at all who you are.” - Thomas Bernhard
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” - Clarice Lispector
“Were each man not able to live a number of lives other than his, he would be unable to live his own.” - Paul Valery
“It seemed his whole vocation was to look into himself, to analyse what was going on inside him, as if the very accumulation of details could convince him he was really alive.” - Roberto Arlt, The Seven Madmen
“… to walk is to enact the illusion of autonomy and above all the myth of authenticity.” - Sergio Chejfec, My Two Worlds
“Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.” - Herman Melville, “The Lee Shore”
