A Word for Living Creatures

- beginning with a line from Paul Celan's "The Meridian"
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AUSTIN KLEON: “So, what do you do?” “I'm an artist.” →

Side note: I am not a fan of the “What do you do?” question.

austinkleon:

We all know what it’s like: you’re at a party and somebody asks you what you do, and you have to answer, “I’m an artist,” or, “I’m a writer,” or, even worse, “I’m a cartoonist.”

It usually goes something like this dialogue at the end of Unforgiven:

MUNNY: You sure you ain’t…

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    Side note: I am not
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    I think these lists of “what do you do” are fantastic for website about pages and blog entries, but whenever I go to a...
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