Week9_Points from Shield

323

I have a narrative, but you`will be put to it to find it.

327

The novel is dead. Long live the anti novel, built from scraps.

330

Everything I write, I believe instinctively is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

342

The main question collage artist face: you’ve found some interesting material how do you go about arranging it?

349

The very nature of collage demands fragmented materials, or at least materials yanked out of context. Collage is, in a way, only an accentuated act of editing: picking through a options and presenting a new arrangement (albeit one that, due to its varegated material, can’t be edit into smooth, transitional whole that a work of complete fiction could be). The act of editing  may be the key postmodern artistic instrument.

361

You don’t need a story. The question is how long do you not need a story?