Lydia Davis: preference

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…Does your own work ever remind you of Joseph Cornell? No. I like Joseph Cornell, and I like what he was doing and why, but I don’t do collages, and I never have. I don’t know if I ever would, but you never know. My pieces are always composed in a very unified way from beginning to end in the first place. I go back to them and work on them. The collage idea doesn’t appeal to me. Although just once, a neighbor and friend here in New York State — he was writing haikus, and he said, “Would you like to collaborate on a poem?” I usually don’t want to, but I said, “Well, okay, if we can do it this way. I’ll give you a poem, and what inspires you by what you read, you can compose something and intersperse it with mine.” That worked out quite well, but that wasn’t me responding to him, which is not quite fair. What is it in the music repertoire that most captured your imagination when you were young?…

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