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the priest's diary Peter Schwartz & Kim Goransson |
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priest's diary' was quite an undertaking. After meeting Kim and agreeing
that salamanders were really fucking cool, we became really great
friends. After realizing we shared almost the exact same sense of poetic
values (a small miracle in itself) we decided on collaborating. Kim has
studied the Bible very closely and came up with that faithful line:
"my chapel is where I am weakest". From that alone we soon
realized our storyline: a poem about a priest banished from the Church
and sent to convert natives on an obscure island. From there, the priest
himself took over and kicked us both out. We worked well over 150 hours
on this poem, often staying up all night, debating the merits of every
word, break, and comma. Perhaps because this poem is so serious, it was
during those nights that we learned the value of humor. To overcome the
incredible frustration of such long bouts of concentrated labor, we
would make each other laugh by suggesting the most ridiculous lines
possible. It was this poem that taught us each how to be |
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