Praying is actually begging.
Wisdom is resignation.
I read Sam Lipsyte's Venus Drive and Home Land. They won't last--but they have amusing parts. A writer needs to be both good and lucky: Joyce wrote about growing up in a suffocating land that was about to explode. He was good and lucky. Post-modern American mall culture just doesn't lend itself to noteworthy literature. Maybe when the oil runs out and we're going crazy trying to step on our neighbors, then we'll have a literature that both good and noteworthy.
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