decorative library

The hotel lobby had many bookshelves but the books were turned so that the spines were facing in, facing the wall, as though their titles and authors mattered not, and their purpose was merely decorative like any wall covering.

self is style

Ironic that the author of “The Death of the Author” was himself so much ‘the author’ of his own works.

[re Roland Barthes]

who me wow

The poem the poet writes and then can hardly recognize as his own.

to usurp the author

The attraction of critical theory: One can usurp the place of the author without having had to produce a primary text.