John Barth
John Barth
John Simmons Barthis an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
loyalty men allegiance
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
teaching two bird
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
existence
Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist,
god men
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
history political secret
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
serendipity good-faith elsewhere
You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
love reading mean
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.
case prefer quick trial
We prefer a quick trial date. We think that's what will get this case resolved.
aware fully law relying reports
The defendants are fully aware when they violate the law and they have to notify the state. We're relying on their own reports for the violations.
growth platform
When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth.