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My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. my epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
-James Fenton
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My Sonnet Asserts That The Sonnet Still

James Fenton
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. my epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
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There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, i shall try to write a sonnet. but the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.
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Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. and people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative going on here. i think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? i don't. you know, we all own the white house. so what? i still can't go in, right?
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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. epic and tiny at the same time. if you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. in doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. rome'll decline and fall again, cortés'll lay tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, ewing will sail again, adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and i'll sleep under the corsican stars again, i'll come to bruges again, fall in and out of love with eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. nietzsche's gramophone record. when it ends, the old one plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.
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The democrats, because they are the media, still establish the narrative for washington every day. and whatever that narrative is, the republicans - for some reason (i think it's force of habit and years and years of conditioning) - still become subservient to whatever that narrative is.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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