SLPAD - 32 consisting solely of a quote

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Mar 26 08:52:10 UTC 2023


Such fine words.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 3:04 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one’s personal
>                life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as
> everyone knows, is nearly
>                the direct opposite. Moreover, contrary evidence was all
> around me, though I chose
>                to ignore it, for in fact the fiction both published and
> unpublished that moved and
>                pleased me then as now was precisely that which had been
> made luminous, undeniably
>                authentic by having been found and taken up, always at a
> cost, from deeper, more shared
>                levels of the life we all really live. I hate to think that
> I didn’t, however defectively,
>                understand this.
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