The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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What can Brown do for you?

Once, on the first day of class, Angela Carter, who taught at Brown, was asked by a student what her own writing was like. She carefully answered as follows: “My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man’s penis.”

A profile of American creative writing education by Louis Menand on The New Yorker.

[(2009 June 4) • • • .]

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My homework ate my dog.

  • Me: “Late in his life, Serling taught at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York”
  • Me: That would be weird to have him as your professor
  • Ethane: WELCOME TO
  • Ethane: SCREEN WRITING 101
  • Ethane: GOTCHA, BITCHES
  • Me: “Are we going to die? / NO! STOP ASKING ME THAT!”
[(2009 January 1) • • • .]