j. haas

“We live in the age of mass loquacity.

We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience - so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed. Experience is the only thing we share equally, and everyone senses this. We are surrounded by special cases, by special pleadings, in an atmosphere of universal celebrity.*

*It’s not the case that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. In the future everyone will be famous all the time - but only in their own minds. It is lookalike fame, karaoke fame. There’s only one task it’s equal to: it messes with the head.”

— Experience, by Martin Amis.