Philosophy / Illiterature / Comedy

Saturday, February 6, 2010

World-Historical Greatness

In the pursuit of world-historical greatness, he would write a book about the pursuit of world-historical greatness. He would write a book about a guy who was writing a book about a guy who was writing a book. His book would describe the problems of its own construction.

He would need to film crews. Only one of these film crews would need any film.

"The only story worth telling," he assures us, " is the story of storytelling itself."
Photographs of cameras?

In our civilization of the consumer who consumes re-descriptions of himself, his portrait of the artist as a self-conscious asshole just might work.

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