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You can do whatever you want with my work.
Kathy Acker -
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
Kathy Acker
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And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
Kathy Acker -
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Kathy Acker -
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
Kathy Acker -
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
Kathy Acker
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I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ...
Kathy Acker -
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
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But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
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I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
Kathy Acker -
Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
Kathy Acker -
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker
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You know I've had work banned.
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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
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Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
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In the total devastation of the heart which is the world, the lands-lords rule. There is no way we can defeat the landslords. But under their reins and their watchful eyes.I sail as the winds of lusts and emotions bare me. Everywhere and anywhere. I who will never own, whatever and whenever I want, I take.
Kathy Acker