Thoughts of Sublime Prose

[NOIRTRASH]

Correspondence brought sublime prose to mind, today. What is it, and how do you get at it?

I haven't done any scholarship thus far but I find the sublime where one thing ends and another thing begins, always significant things, like life and death, straight and queer. Where feelings are strong and opposite.

To capture it simply report what you sense.

 

[lovecraft68]

Going by your thoughts sublime prose would have to come from people with a been there done that in what they write. In order to capture the helpless despair of an addict one would had to have been one, known one, or perhaps worked with them.

To describe a character who has been driven into or accomplishes a psychotic rage a person has to have been that angry at some point or again known someone close to them to be able to have seen it and identify.

In other words sublime isn't going to come from a fake it until you make it type.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Going by your thoughts sublime prose would have to come from people with a been there done that in what they write. In order to capture the helpless despair of an addict one would had to have been one, known one, or perhaps worked with them.

To describe a character who has been driven into or accomplishes a psychotic rage a person has to have been that angry at some point or again known someone close to them to be able to have seen it and identify.

In other words sublime isn't going to come from a fake it until you make it type.

Exactly.

I spent the day researching powder cocaine yesterday, and I came away with a sense that little happens the first time a noob snorts some, besides the nose burning or whatever. Sigmund Freud used coke all the time, and a sense of well-being was it for him. His wife and her sister became problem users.

Back in 1971 I tried various drugs with no remarkable effects or thrills, so I didn't waste my money.

Pussy is my poison.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Going by your thoughts sublime prose would have to come from people with a been there done that in what they write. In order to capture the helpless despair of an addict one would had to have been one, known one, or perhaps worked with them.

To describe a character who has been driven into or accomplishes a psychotic rage a person has to have been that angry at some point or again known someone close to them to be able to have seen it and identify.

In other words sublime isn't going to come from a fake it until you make it type.

Last week I read a memoir in which the writer spoke of her drug hallucinations, and what she said was correct, because her experiences were identical to mine on the old ETHER. I thought, THATS IT EXACTLY.