The world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. It quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
“Any prose writer, even if he doesn’t use narrative the way narrative is traditionally used, is concerned with narrative. I mean the reader has to go from A to Z and it’s going to take a long time and that’s narrative. There’s no way to get around it; that’s the form.”
Kathy Acker