“Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.” IfsWantShouldLostClaimsNovelists Author:Ben Lerner
“The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.” IfsTryingKindPersonsSelfProblemLostConsciousDistractedSelf ConsciousImpressionable Author:Ben Lerner
“I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.” TryingLostMedicalSupplanting Author:Ben Lerner
