Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.
I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.