Finding your style
From a recent New Yorker short story, The Train of their Departure by David Bezmozgis:
"Apart from recommending a doctor, Karl was no help. Alec was left to his own devices. And, with Polina sitting in his kitchen, it occurred to him that life, which he’d treated as a pastime, and which he’d thought he could yet outdistance, had finally caught up with him. And he discovered, much as he’d suspected, that once life caught up with you, you could never quite shake it again. It endeavored to hobble you with greater and greater frequency. How you managed to remain upright became your style, who you were."
Best description of an artist's style I can think of. How you manage to remain upright...
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/08/09/100809fi_fiction_bezmozgis?currentPage=8#ixzz0xOHeS6ln
"Apart from recommending a doctor, Karl was no help. Alec was left to his own devices. And, with Polina sitting in his kitchen, it occurred to him that life, which he’d treated as a pastime, and which he’d thought he could yet outdistance, had finally caught up with him. And he discovered, much as he’d suspected, that once life caught up with you, you could never quite shake it again. It endeavored to hobble you with greater and greater frequency. How you managed to remain upright became your style, who you were."
Best description of an artist's style I can think of. How you manage to remain upright...
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/08/09/100809fi_fiction_bezmozgis?currentPage=8#ixzz0xOHeS6ln
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