I was a middle-aged werewolf

Other title; Werewolf Dad

self portrait as a werewolf - in progress

All the problems of creativity are problems of living

"Essentially, I think all the problems of writing are problems of living. And all the problems of creativity are problems of living. They are all problems which we all share. I had been brought by my particular path to an experience of certain structures breaking down that I realized were old. For example, today I drove over the Brooklyn Bridge and remembered all the things I’d read about the infrastructure of American roads and bridges being in bad repair. I thought, “Am I entirely safe here?” It’s been here a long time, but it doesn’t mean it always will be. It’s that feeling of realizing that your consciousness, what appears to be your individuality, is actually resting on old, possibly decrepit structures."

Rachel Cusk

Creativity as another war enterprise.

"If war contributes to the construction of society, then those who instead of wanting war are engaged in aesthetical enterprises will infact be using more than others their prohibited violence in other war enterprises.

Destructiveness and violence are absolutely crucial for seriously good creativity.

Matisse for instance talked of his work in terms of rape."

Juliet Mitchell

I have a game

"I have a game in which I put a small pebble on a sloping board, then roll a pencil towards it – each roll of the pencil, always from the same position, pushes the pebble further. I make a series of marks where the pebble stops. I’ve chosen the gradient, the pebble and the pencil, but the randomness throws up surprises which intuition, or measurement, never can. Is this nonsense?"

Harrison Birtwistle

Not being able to do it.

"Not being able to do it is part of being able to do it."

Leon kossof

The thing you fear the most, and his wife. Ideas