Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoy
PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
My PhD thesis just passed with no corrections!! I'm seldom overcome, but today I might just be.
and so I was frightened from the word go. The real people were out there, and I was here. —Quentin Crisp
Solitude is such a wonderful feeling. It’s a wonder why we ever sacrifice it for company.
At least once at every single academic conference I find myself thinking about Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”.
You write in order to be able to breathe. —Samuel Beckett
Spent the last few hours of daylight after nine hours of academic panels advising on a film project in a scholarly capacity. I wonder if I should now spend the night being mentally lazy or read Thomas Pynchon [??🤔]
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme —Virginia Woolf
We’re talking this afternoon about Faulkner collectibles and this isn’t even the weirdest. Harmony Kingdom ball pot in the likeness of the author.
The absolute antics of me trying to take this shirt off after sweating all the live long day.
Us Brits actually used to need this advice during the warm beer dark ages.
The bartender last night kept getting offended any time anyone ordered anything other than Tennessee whiskey.
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. —William Faulkner