A Dead Afternoon In A Dark Bar

In This Country There Is A Universal Third Person, The Man We All Want To Be. Advertising Has Discovered This Man. It Uses Him To Express The Possibilities Open To The Consumer. To Consume In America Is Not To Buy; It Is To Dream. Advertising Is The Suggestion That The Dream Of Entering The Third Person Singular Might Possibly Be Fulfilled.

Writing Is A Form Of Personal Freedom. It Frees Us From The Mass Identity We See In The Making All Around Us. In The End, Writers Will Write Not To Be Outlaw Heroes Of Some Underculture But Mainly To Save Themselves, To Survive As Individuals.

He Speaks In Your Voice, American, And There's A Shine In His Eye That's Halfway Hopeful.

World Is Supposed To Mean Something That's Self-contained. But Nothing Is Self-contained.

Sometimes A Thing That's Hard Is Hard Because You're Doing It Wrong. (point Omega)