There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
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. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunder
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