Mirth_Feb22_2016 - The Monday Morning Memo

“I become confused, or even distressed, whenever I find myself among streets or roads that are not arranged in a rectangular grid. … I have watched few films during my lifetime and hardly any in recent years. … I cannot recall having gone voluntarily into any art gallery or museum or building said to be of historic interest. I have never worn sunglasses. I have never learned to swim. I have never voluntarily immersed myself in any sea or stream. … I have never touched any button or switch or working part of any computer or fax machine or mobile telephone. I have never learned to operate any sort of camera. … In 1979 I taught myself to type using the index finger of my right hand alone. Since then, I have composed all my fiction and other writing using the finger just mentioned and one or another of my three manual typewriters.”

- Gerald Murnane, in a 2001 speech. Murnane is a 79-year-old writer from a town of 200 people in rural Australia who is currently a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, according to Mark Binelli of the New York Times, March 27, 2018

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