INTERVIEWER
Do you ever revise a story after it’s been published? Apparently, before he died, Proust rewrote the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past.
MUNRO
Yes, and Henry James rewrote simple, understandable stuff so it was obscure and difficult. Actually I’ve done it recently. The story “Carried Away” was included in Best American Short Stories 1991. I read it again in the anthology, because I wanted to see what it was like and I found a paragraph that I thought was really soggy. It was a very important little paragraph, maybe two sentences. I just took a pen and rewrote it up in the margin of the anthology so that I’d have it there to refer to when I published the story in book form. I’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again it seems a bit obtrusive. So I’m not too sure about this sort of thing. The answer may be that one should stop this behavior. There should be a point where you say, the way you would with a child, this isn’t mine anymore.
Do you ever revise a story after it’s been published? Apparently, before he died, Proust rewrote the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past.
MUNRO
Yes, and Henry James rewrote simple, understandable stuff so it was obscure and difficult. Actually I’ve done it recently. The story “Carried Away” was included in Best American Short Stories 1991. I read it again in the anthology, because I wanted to see what it was like and I found a paragraph that I thought was really soggy. It was a very important little paragraph, maybe two sentences. I just took a pen and rewrote it up in the margin of the anthology so that I’d have it there to refer to when I published the story in book form. I’ve often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn’t really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn’t seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again it seems a bit obtrusive. So I’m not too sure about this sort of thing. The answer may be that one should stop this behavior. There should be a point where you say, the way you would with a child, this isn’t mine anymore.
I found this crazy man biography book on the street. Even though his personal real life is wild, got married with his stepdaughter that he adopted. I still admire his genius as a writer, actor, producer, musician, comedian and director. I'm still a fan of his work in his artistic career.
My heart say one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life. -Woody Allen
My heart say one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life. -Woody Allen
【钱婆Kesha新专辑歌词爆出】
传言｜一位内部人士透露了Kesha新歌歌词，并认为 K6 可能已进入最后阶段，因为有些歌曲已经完全完成：
“I’m the good girl, I’m the fuckboy...
I'm the ocean, I'm the fire...
I'm the ***** and I’ve been waiting for y’all...
I’m a monster, I'm a god”
-
“Are you a man, 'cause I'm a *****...
This party sucks, I'm about to ditch...
Oh, you say you love me
Well, so do I...”
“这是一首很酷的歌，其制作和所用的乐器都非常奇怪且独特！”
传言｜一位内部人士透露了Kesha新歌歌词，并认为 K6 可能已进入最后阶段，因为有些歌曲已经完全完成：
“I’m the good girl, I’m the fuckboy...
I'm the ocean, I'm the fire...
I'm the ***** and I’ve been waiting for y’all...
I’m a monster, I'm a god”
-
“Are you a man, 'cause I'm a *****...
This party sucks, I'm about to ditch...
Oh, you say you love me
Well, so do I...”
“这是一首很酷的歌，其制作和所用的乐器都非常奇怪且独特！”
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