Comments on: Bolaño’s Vast Forest of Literature http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/bolanos-vast-forest-of-literature/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jim Murdoch http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/bolanos-vast-forest-of-literature/comment-page-1/#comment-111658 Jim Murdoch Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:08:27 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=3490#comment-111658 Well, that’s encouraging. At least when I have writer’s block I can blame whoever’s working me seeing as what I’m just as hollow as hollow gets. As for masterpieces the closest I’ll admit to thinking anything I wrote was a masterpiece is once when I picked up my third novel having not looked at it in a few years, opened it arbritrarily, read a paragraph and wondered how the hell I could have written it it was so damn good. I have a couple of poems like that. Now if only the other thousand were half that good. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Jim; I thought this would engage you in some way. But just one masterpiece would be nice, no? Well, that’s encouraging. At least when I have writer’s block I can blame whoever’s working me seeing as what I’m just as hollow as hollow gets.

As for masterpieces the closest I’ll admit to thinking anything I wrote was a masterpiece is once when I picked up my third novel having not looked at it in a few years, opened it arbritrarily, read a paragraph and wondered how the hell I could have written it it was so damn good. I have a couple of poems like that. Now if only the other thousand were half that good.

jb says: Hi Jim; I thought this would engage you in some way. But just one masterpiece would be nice, no?

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