| dewy decimal |
2004-11-21 - 2:44 p.m.
"'In this century the writer has carried on a new conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold a special place in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of all false voices.'"
-from the character of Owen in DeLillo's The Names