LATE FRAGMENT
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
— Raymond Carver
Found in the December 2006 issue of The Sun Magazine, in Instead of Dying by Tess Gallagher, about her final years with Carver.
In the piece Gallagher gave intimations of the actions that she's now taking -- and really shaking up a few folks by doing so -- to restore Carver's original intention behind the short stories that were published -- heavily edited -- in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The book, if it comes to pass, will be published as Beginners.
Plenty of folks are hoping it won't come to pass -- the New York Times reported on the controversy yesterday in The Real Carter: Expansive or Minimal?
(And two points to mrtn, who saw right through the set up.)
7 comments:
I quit smoking that summer after my wife left me. It made me nervous, so I started drinking again. I was waiting for a letter that didn't come. Then my new girlfriend said something I couldn't quite understand. We almost had a fight. The end.
Charley loved Carver when we were dating, so I read him. I liked him, but mostly I just wanted him to snap out of it already.
I was hanging around the house the first time she called. She thought I was a doctor. Later, she called again. My wife is never home. So I went to her house pretending to be a doctor. For no reason, I kissed her to be mean. I'm so weird. The end.
Man, I knew that MA in comparative literature would come in handy someday.
http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml
love it. Beowulf-in-a-minute was especially salient:
Hrothgar
Let's build a big old dining hall and call it Herot.
(They do. Then Grendel, an ugly guy, takes over Herot and eats people. Beowulf rips his arm off.)
All
You rule, Beowulf.
(Some people make SPEECHES and tell IRRELEVANT STORIES. Beowulf kills some more STUFF.)
Beowulf
Wiglaf, I'm dying. See that my funeral pyre fits my greatness.
Wiglaf
Ok.
THE END
I think my favourite was Moll Flanders. Talk about giving away the ending.
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