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Thomas Francis Michael McCarthy (July 24, 1863 – August 5, 1922) was a Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.

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Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.

Art, Engaging, Exposed, Gone, People, School

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

Disinterred, Echoes, Kind, Literary, Literature, Understand

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Art, Hacking, Kind, Open

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.

Car, Destiny, Godless, Literature, Passive, Trajectories

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