Joyce Carol Oates, Not Eating Enough, and the Saint Lehan Joke

March 14, 2021

A light but revealing page about slowly warming to Joyce Carol Oates's writing class, not eating enough, trying to study craft properly, and then drifting into swaggering 'Saint Lehan' self-mythologizing jokes about being the most widely read man in the country.

5:30 a.m.

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I do not know, a part of me likes to see the animal get slaughtered in the abattoir and another part does not want to see any animal hurt.

What I do know is I love beef and I know how it is made and I make a choice.

I love the violent movies.

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I should just be cool.

Re: Channa

Best to forgive if he cannot do something as Chairman of Sampath Bank, he failed Thilanga and Jagath and endangered Shanika, it is his problem, he will live with it and he will not be able to pass the buck.

Next time, and anyway, all these people are joining our firm and Shanika and Jacques and Thilanga are all there, so no need to worry so much.

I just never seem to get angry openly.

I pretend pretty well.

Or more accurately, I always look at the "grand scheme of things" and act on that always.

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Leonard Cohen -- In My Secret Life:

https://youtu.be/NW7oNpzBSGc

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Story

8:15 p.m.

Hahaha I like this Joyce Carol Oates and her MasterClass on writing

I had ice cream and a late lunch, I am not eating enough, there is enough bread for a sandwich in the morning

I am sleepy now

I did 40 minutes yesterday on elliptical machine

Minor flashback of ███████

Despite what that critic in The Social Dilemma (2020) has to say about "dead tree, dead whale has more value and profit than alive tree, alive whale"

There is more profit in business, security and happiness -- when the neighbour is safe, you are safe

I like this MasterClass, I am slowly studying and learning how to improve my own writing

Though, if you want to talk: Best Seller

Saint Lehan (it is a joke Jacques Huyghebaert reference because of some Saint Antoine someone wrote his favourite book "The Little Prince") is the most widely read motherfucker in this disappearing land

and hidden in my coat is a red right hand

https://youtu.be/RrxePKps87k

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