“I don’t know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That’s where the mind moves, that’s what’s new.” Anne Carson talks to Emma Brockes atThe Guardian [via http://www.thepage.name/]
[T]his is a woman who will happily devote 50 pages to discussing 14th-century French mysticism and round it off with a joke about Kant – her publisher, Knopf, leaves her pretty much alone. “Lucky,” she says, and giggles.
Much of the rest is similarly quirky. Sounds like someone I have to find a book by. She’s Canadian so naturally I would hear about her thru a British newspaper.
And voila, easily enough done. I’m #2 in the library queue for The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. (I love the internet.)
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