https://chris.zarate.org/tags/barthelme/ Recent content in Barthelme on ∅ Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:57:00 +0000 https://chris.zarate.org/books/dept-of-speculation/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:57:00 +0000 https://chris.zarate.org/books/dept-of-speculation/ <blockquote> <p>A student asked Donald Barthelme how he might become a better writer. Barthelme advised him to read through the whole history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics up through the modern-day thinkers. The student wondered how he could possibly do this. “You&rsquo;re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping,” Barthelme said. “Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature.” Also art, he amended. Also politics.</p></blockquote>