I feel like I spent the first decade of my career trying to seem normal and trying to seem palatable and trying to seem like I wasn't too much or too weird or too specific. And I think that the things about myself that I tried to hide are the things that now I'm trying to put at the center of the work.
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. And what we are is largely what we have consented to become, through the daily, unremarked choices that accumulate into a character — and finally a fate.
Anaïs Nin — Seduction of the Minotaur
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
Franz Kafka — Letter to Oskar Pollak
Listening feels a little like watching a river move through a cluster of rocks, breaking apart for a moment and then merging. But the rendition that really gets me, that I keep playing again and again, is a slowed version of Landis' original—about 32 minutes, or five times the initial length. To go back to that river, it's like the water is half-frozen now, moving between the chutes of rock with the speed of a slurry.
Grayson Currin