The "I've cursed this lonely memory with picture-perfect imagery" line is one of my favorites but I might be reading way too far into it. I see it as a description of having an identity as a "writer." As a writer, you spend a lot of time documenting and describing your own existence which is almost certainly sort of lame, and if it's got any hope of being interesting, occasionally miserable. Your imagery might not be picture-perfect but calling it that says something about how lame you know it all is. It sounds like a nuanced and self-loathing line.
Of course it also mean "I have such a good memory that it's actually bad. #humblebrag."
Looks like you've rooted out the connection to "theme of authorship" that I suspected from the Pale Fire references! In that sense, I don't think you're reading "too far" into it at all. Maybe that's what he'll "fuck up," the writing.
Looks like you've rooted out the connection to "theme of authorship" that I suspected from the Pale Fire references! In that sense, I don't think you're reading "too far" into it at all. Maybe that's what he'll "fuck up," the writing.
The "I've cursed this lonely memory with picture-perfect imagery" line is one of my favorites but I might be reading way too far into it. I see it as a description of having an identity as a "writer." As a writer, you spend a lot of time documenting and describing your own existence which is almost certainly sort of lame, and if it's got any hope of being interesting, occasionally miserable. Your imagery might not be picture-perfect but calling it that says something about how lame you know it all is. It sounds like a nuanced and self-loathing line.
Of course it also mean "I have such a good memory that it's actually bad. #humblebrag."
Looks like you've rooted out the connection to "theme of authorship" that I suspected from the Pale Fire references! In that sense, I don't think you're reading "too far" into it at all. Maybe that's what he'll "fuck up," the writing.
Looks like you've rooted out the connection to "theme of authorship" that I suspected from the Pale Fire references! In that sense, I don't think you're reading "too far" into it at all. Maybe that's what he'll "fuck up," the writing.