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>>22317390
They're 'the real thing'.

>>22317398
Do it dude. I support you.

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>>21826027
You're an unimaginative authentocrat. What's wrong with enjoying all the detours and elaborations that sexuality can assume? If we have to live in a labyrinthine social and cultural world then at least let us eroticise its windings. Maybe we once lived in the big open arcadian pasture with ruddy nude nymphs gaily sprawled on the grass, but once writing and symbols and systematic power arose there was no going back. Love letters and haunting images and the codes of prohibition set libido permanently loose from whatever may have rooted it in that purer mud.

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>>21741608
I really want to like Diane Williams but I can't get into her.

It feels a bit diffuse and mood-boardy. Like a collage of sexy/whistful sensations and images that don't function together to produce something more and weirder than the sum of the parts.

Amy Hempel and Chrstine Schutt I similarly wanted to like and similarly found frustrating to read. Lots of affectedly witty and knowing and forlorn little moments whose only coordinating principle seems like a sense of ambience.

I think Gary Lutz (now 'Garielle' lol) works in a similar vein, and sometimes his (her) stories have that same patched-together meandering feel but often they do achieve that sense of circling around a darker and more substantial centre.

Anyway, to answer your question; I like Joy Williams a whole lot. AKA the Superior Williams.

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I have a diary.txt. I have a particular 'writing voice' that I use for it, and I've had the weird experience of sensing it shift from something unfamiliar and independent and semi-artificial to 'my voice'. It's not that the style has changed; I've just become more used to seeing my thoughts shuffling around as external objects. It's like the arena of your mind expands outside the skullwalls to also encompass the keyboard/screen zones. I've written a lot of fiction before, but this feeling was new to me. Maybe this is all trivial and overthought to anyone long in the habit of reflective, personal writing.

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