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“A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.”

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Christopher Ricks is a renowned literary critic known for his profound interpretations and critical analyses of poetry. Born in 1933, his work has had a significant impact on the field of literary criticism since the 1960s. more

“The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations that are good unclean fun. A popular venture that is keen to paste—épater—everybody (not just the bourgeoisie), it is the art of the single entendre. Highly staged low life, it guffaws at the pious, the prudish, and the priggish. High cockalorum versus high decorum…. The introduction here, like the translator’s note, tells well the story of the comic tales, anonymous for the most part, usually two or three hundred lines long, of which about 160 exist.”

Wells Long Art Two Stories Three Fun Lines Lows Hundred Notes Tales Comic Dirty Tall Short Story Venture Humiliation Versus Introduction Pious Bourgeoisie Translators Decorum Dirty Words

Author:Christopher Ricks

“We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.”

Moments Past Constant Abyss

Book:Pulphead: Essays

Source: Pulphead: Essays

“The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.”

Ifs Seems Guy White Results Rocks Hair Rap Over It Justification Tattoo Overweight White Guys

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.”

Things To Do Just Saying

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.”

Needs Old Fashioned Reborn

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Looks Kind Enough Happens Able Faces Guy Situation Moral Empathy Stations Bus Heroism

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.”

Want Asks Good Writers Good Faith

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.”

People Thinking Writing Important Groups Serious Personality Hunger Obsession Manage Best Things Fascinating Midst Quests Skepticism Collecting Make You Think Collectors

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.”

Helping Medication

Author:Tanya Tucker

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