Sublime

and appreciation not tethered to utility or survival.

prelapsarian

Bob Dylan could write a song in minutes while Leonard Cohen sometimes took years. And we may love the songs equally.

It may sound like I’m taking all this a little too personally, but I’m a songwriter who is engaged, at this very moment, in the process of songwriting. It’s a blood and guts business, here at my desk, that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness. What that new idea is, I don’t know, but it is out there

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

And I wanted to write like this as well: numbness as a feeling, numbness as a motivation, numbness as the reason to exist, numbness as ecstasy.

admirar. Nem ele nem sua obra receberam o menor estímulo; mas ele insistiu em comportar-se como um personagem. Onde quer que os jeunes féroces das artes se reunissem — em qualquer restaurante descoberto no Soho —, lá estava Soames, no meio deles, ou melhor, à margem, uma figura vaga, mas inevitável.

indolent