Tag Archives: Writing

1953: Description

Posted on June 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

As for his feet, sometimes he wore on each a sock, or on the one a sock and on the other a stocking, or a boot, or a shoe, or a slipper, or a sock and a boot, or a … Continue reading →

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1821: In Life the Firmest Friend

Posted on June 12, 2018 by corvusfugit

From a letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, August 1821: Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom…at twelve. After breakfast, we sit talking till six. From six till … Continue reading →

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1970: Knots

Posted on June 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

A selection from R. D. Laing’s Knots (1970). Here is another: Mother loves me because she is good I am bad, to think she is bad therefore if I am good she is good and loves me because I am … Continue reading →

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2010: We Chast Butterflys

Posted on May 25, 2018 by corvusfugit

Found in a park, 2010: GUY CLUES 1. has gray hair 2. wears glasses 3. looks like mr. schultz 4. construction man day 2 very dusty [?] suny bisx [?] mayla aolo [?] must erestmangone [?] mushengone [?] blanck nin … Continue reading →

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1968: BE THE THING!

Posted on May 19, 2018 by corvusfugit

An exercise from Making It Strange #4, a workbook for elementary school students published by Harper & Row in 1968: BE ZERO AND SEE THE WORLD Simple things often seem dull until you get inside them and think the way … Continue reading →

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2006: A Little White Shadow

Posted on April 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Pages from Mary Ruefle’s book A Little White Shadow, which was composed by whiting out text from Emily Malbone Morgan‘s 1890 book of the same name. …seven centuries of…sobbing…gathered…in the…twilight…and…had their…pages…wandered…through the…dead…borrow so little from…the past…as if they were alive

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2001: Was the Silence Gloomy?

Posted on March 17, 2018 by corvusfugit

Gilbert Sorrentino’s 2001 novel Gold Fools is written entirely in questions. Here are the opening paragraphs: Were Nort Shannon, Dick Shannon, and Bud Merkel exceptionally morose as they sat before the small bunkhouse and about the flames of the blazing … Continue reading →

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1894: Novel

Posted on February 10, 2018 by corvusfugit

Santiago Rusiñol: Novela romántica (1894) ¡Ay! ¡Desgraciadamente no, Elvira! replicó con vehemencia Rodrigo clavando sus rasgados ojos más negros que el azabache en el rostro seductor de su prometida, sobran para mi devoradora inquietud. Ya no comprende vuestro corazón al … Continue reading →

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1973: 198 Methods

Posted on February 10, 2018 by corvusfugit

Gene Sharp  died last week. Sharp was a prolific theorist of nonviolent action whose writings have influenced anti-government resistance movements around the world. His work was profoundly shaped by the study of Gandhi and the labor and civil rights activist … Continue reading →

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1973: Self-Translation

Posted on January 23, 2018 by corvusfugit

Born in Ireland, Samuel Beckett wrote almost exclusively in French after moving to Paris in 1939. He would then translate his novels and plays into English. He wrote the following sentence in his 1946 short story “Premier amour”: Personnellement je … Continue reading →

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