Tim Barrus Blog
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The Great American Novel
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Poetic Justice: The Great American Novel has been surpassed by the Great Irish Novel. The Great Irish Novel is more focused and more tied to the idea of reality – one in which great waiting with patience occurs. The Great American Novel is no longer great. It’s worth is a…
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Little Mermaid Town
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It Always Pours on a Road Trip
This one comes straight out of Dodge.
I am writing about Dodge, now. There is on the le road, and there is off. The le road. People have to choose, and that is the way in. Into what. That downpour — Motel Find…
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The Normals Want U 2 Explain
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Explain what. I suspect you might get better answers elsewhere. My eyes to the sky.
“Explain this!”
No.
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Do Not Touch Me
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As patients, we are not allowed to say no. I’m a man, not a rectum. In what universe are we talking about here. Not mine. Not me. Not now. Not ever. If I even hear the word – colonoscopy – I walk in the opposite direction. My eyes to the…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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Great travelers. The great travelers on the happy planet do not include themselves as victims in all the looking back at where they have been. I’m autistic, and really cannot make sense out of how political parties came to be regarded as the tails that wag the dragon. I’m so…
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Sleeping in Hammocks
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I think in images. Not words. I do take those words and my job is to translate them into ideas homo sapiens can understand. Usually, they don’t get it, and you begin to realize that they are just not going to get it. No matter what. A brick wall is…
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What Book Is It Like
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I am now used to the questions (plural) about what book is the book I am writing now like.
The question is, I guess, inevitable. I smile and nod.
Gravity’s Rainbow. But anyone born after 1987 will not have read it. Or they’ve read it but they are all in…
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ChinaTown ChinaTown
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It’s about the money. Everyone has their bugabuga religion. What happens to speech. Speech here. Speech there. I want to know about speech in Russia, the DRC, what happened in France, les confréries de la langue, what is speech in Japan. I hesitate to use the term Free Speech anywhere.…
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It Is All A Blur
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The wild waters of this roar are made in the fortitude of salt. Just salt. Miles and miles of salt. Mountains of salt. And the bones that fell there. – Tim Barrus
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Dirt Bike Town
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Proof of Endurance