a feature of the creature feature

"A Feature of the Creature Feature," April 1, 2022 (#91)

original title

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (2002)

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (5th Century BCE)

"Art in a Time of War" by Peter Schjeldahl (March 14, 2022)

"Who is the Bad Art Friend?" by Robert Kolker (October 5, 2021)

penultimate line from "Sutured Time: History and Kubrick’s The Shining" by Tony Magistrale (2016)

A Feature of the Creature Feature

We have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and

with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the

combatants need to consult the Iliad, say, to grasp what they were.

The racial dynamics of what we were discussing very differently from

the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel

when the enemy is close at hand and remains quiet.

Goya’s penultimate “Disaster” depicts a glowing female figure supine, and

two years earlier, during their email melée, now seemed like gaslighting.

Why have I stressed professionalism so heavily in the

ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy

incompletely. I am a frequent reader of military histories. I swear, especially,

my story’s portrayal and critique of white-savior dynamics

is so common we don’t even notice. But it’s a miracle. And its implications

prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts.

There, in black and white, were pages and pages of printed

free-form poetics, a postmodern revelry, that bears an

event as something cartoonishly abstract.

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From Carrie (1974).

From Friends 10.6, "The One With Ross' Grant" (2003). (From here.)

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