Will Brown
Will Brown
animal class culture
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
reality views virginia
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
emotional language weak
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
smart intelligence bigs
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
thinking doors infidelity
Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
humor thinking events
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
class differences people
There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
struggle people individuality
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
men upset different
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
suicide years two
The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
aquariums england nations
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
laughter real humor
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
luxury self pity
Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
artist soul trouble
Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.