Mary Ruefle
This entry was posted on 9/6/2011 9:49 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Unbelievable. Mary Ruefle has made my invented literary school of "omitists" and "self-erasors" real. So does that make me a genius before my time, or an idiot? My original thoughts on that:
http://litura.com/2006/01/22/newd-descending-a-blogspace.aspx
And litura (the url of this blog), while sounding like it has to do with writing literature, actually means erasure in Latin. My little joke.
http://www.quarteraftereight.org/ruefle.htm
"I use white-out, buff-out, blue-out, paper, ink, pencil, gouache,
carbon, and marker; sometimes I press postage stamps onto the page and
pull them off—that literally takes the text right off the page! Once,
while working on an all-white erasure, I had the sense I was somehow
blinding the words—blindfolding the ones I whited-out, and those that
were left had to become, I don’t know, extra-sensory or something. Then I
thought, no, I am bandaging the words, and the ones left were those
that seeped out."
