Kaiser Flowstate
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Mick Jagger on the cover of WSJ. Magazine






My city’s new “artist in residence” - presented without comment…

Right before Blood Meridian, I read Brothers Karamazov, and sure, the prose, at least in translation, isn't as riveting and the characters have the romantic emotional expression of their time, going into fits of hysteria and succumbing to "brain fever" and letting loose sheets of dialogue, but they are recognizably and fully human, with rich inner lives and the thread of Christian hope woven through the plot, and the story drives forward and the higher feelings stick with you at the end. Blood Meridian gives you babies impaled on a mesquite tree and the broken neck of a glass bottle shoved through a bartender's eye socket. Fine, I guess, but I want the Grand Inquisitor and Dmitry's injustice at trial and the Cluster B psychology of Grushenka and Aloysha's final words at the child's funeral. Plot, character, emotion, humanity, God.










