Andrew Roe

Periodically I like to see what JLB has been up to on Twitter.

Recent tweets include:

• “My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

• “Weekends away clear the head. Ready to dream up new monsters.”

• “Baseball! Must re-read Robert Coover’s book, The Universal Baseball Association, about a man who sets up a baseball league in his head.”

• “To repeat something I once said in an interview: At my age, what can I do but plagiarize what I’ve already said, no?”

• “Very tired this morning. But I have been absent from this 140 character electronic box for too long.”

• “An eternal problem: the original is unfaithful to the translation.”

• “Drawing a self-portrait of my self-portrait.”

Andrew Scott pointed this out on Facebook…

There’s a great Ward Sutton graphic/comics review of Robert Boswell’s recently published short story collection “The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards.” (Great title, that.)

You can check out the review here.

“Two beings love each other. But they don’t speak the same language. One of them speaks both languages, but the second language very imperfectly. It suffices for them to love each other. But the one who knows both languages dies. And his last words are in his native tongue which the other is unable to grasp. He searches, he searches…”

It’s the first movie based on a David Foster Wallace book. Will there be more? I know that years ago there was talk of someone turning Infinite Jest into a mini series kind of thing. Do they still make mini series?

“The afternoon with students. They don’t feel the real problem; however, their nostalgia is evident. In this country where everything is done to prove that life isn’t tragic, they feel something is missing. This great effort is pathetic, but one must reject the tragic after having looked at it, not before.”

(I probably should have pointed out that these quotes come from a notebook Camus kept while on a lecture tour of the United States in 1946. He also kept a notebook while on a South American lecture tour in 1949; the poverty and suffering he saw there supposedly informed a lot of The Plague. Both of these notebooks were published as American Journals in 1987.)