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Tuesday , December 14, 2010
Found Objects: The James Joyce of Five Year Olds
This morning, while leafing through my kindergarten Language Arts notebooks (or, "my early work"), I came across THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER WRITTEN:
On the one hand, it's sort of depressing to learn that I actually hit my creative peak twenty years ago, but- being the self-aggrandizing sort of fellow I am- THIS IS SO VALIDATING! Way to be the most frighteningly literary five-year-old of all time, Baby LJ! This "piece" draws in its reader with the hyper-Joycean Daedelus/Icarus allegory, then moves into the stark, highly confessional second movement, before tying it all together with the jarring "People drown sometimes." Wow.
All in all, a striking and incisive take on the futility of human existence. Wonders Baby LJ, "Where's my Nobel Prize at? Can I have a cookie?"
Tags: Baby LJ, Daedelus/Icarus allegory, the futility of human existence, The James Joyce of Five Year Olds
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4 Comments!!
this may be my favorite NG4M post yet.
By rob on August 3, 2010 4:59 PM
thx bro!
By Laura
on August 3, 2010 7:12 PM
The last line is definitely powerful. Picasso once said something along the lines of "I want to learn to draw like a child." Your artifact would have been the product if Joyce said, "I want to learn to write like a child."
By Amy on August 3, 2010 8:53 PM
Oh. My god. Amazing.
By Samantha on August 4, 2010 8:15 AM