Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 12/12/03: However, things like work and one's feeble attempts at reading interpose themselves...

Steven Fitch, "Motel, Highway 85, Deadwood, South Dakota" (1972) — Steven Fitch, *Motel, Highway 85, Deadwood, South Dakota* (1972)

December 12, 2003:

However, things like work and one's feeble attempts at reading interpose themselves, so that when one actually writes one merely transcribes pale words from the past, like coloring-in the faded and inaccurate tracings of the life several pages back.