"You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.
I don't know what you're going to do about it,
But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just
going to walk away from it. Maybe
A small part of it will die if I'm not around
feeding it anymore."
--Lew Welch
How to tell a story
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Existential melancholy
Been reading some Mailer ... reminded that no one writes better about the darker moods than he does. He and Baldwin are the great American giants of prose during my lifetime, digging into the inner life.