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1 " I'm not so much interested in creating literature as I am in trying to convey the pressure of what I've witnessed or experienced. Writing and rewriting until one achieves a literary form, a strict form, just bleeds the life from a experience-no blood left is it isn't raw. How do we talk, how do we think not in novellas or paragraphs but in associations, in sometimes disjointed currents. "
― David Wojnarowicz , In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
2 " It's so odd trying to write about the past based on memory: the landscape and human particulars fall to the odd logic of time and emotional impression. The landscape of memory is as affected by time and personal structure as is landscape affected by light ordarkness. At night when sources of light are curtailed, shaped, bent, deflected, erased, the distances can suddenly be elongated or shortened, physicality of self or landscape expands or contracts in the dark. 8th Avenue in memory can be a location or landscape no one else has ever traveled. "
