Q: What's that colorful painting on your table?
A: That's a Root Doctor collage Big Chief did.
Kurt Schwitters said the artist must be allowed to mold a picture out of
sticking plaster. Provided he is capable of molding a picture.
Q: Did you sell any CDs or pamphlets?
A: I bought a painting from Dr. Bob. Be nice or leave. A chicken and
an alligator.
With Big Easy beer bottle caps on the frame.
When I went to pay, Dr. Bob saw my nametag, that said Artist, and wouldn't
take any money for the painting, so I gave him a CD and a pamphlet, in exchange.
My last book was about how art is like a Kula Ring.
The Melanesian Gambit.
Terry Southern interviewed Henry Green for the Paris Review writers on writing
series.
SOUTHERN: Do you believe that a writer should work toward the development of a particular style?
GREEN: He can't do anything else. His style is himself, and we are all of us changing every day-developing, we hope! We leave our marks behind us, like a snail.
SOUTHERN: So the writer's style develops with him.
GREEN: Surely. But he must take care not to let it go too far-like the later Henry James or James Joyce. Because it then becomes a private communication with himself, like a man making cat's cradles with spiderwebs, a sort of Melanesian gambit.
I go to the writer's conference dressed up like Black McGoon on my ULA Literary
All-Star trading card.
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Q: Maud Newton doesn't think much of the ULA.
A: The ULA doesn't think much of Maud Newton.
Q: Some would say the ULA is on a par with Andy Kaufman's wrestling phase.
A: I'm not sure I'd disagree with that. Or I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
What am I going to go to Halloween as?
A writer.
Are you a painter?
No, I'm a writer.
I meant a housepainter.
I meant a technical writer.