In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors" -Borges



reading this when preparing my testimony for campus crusade for christ.
wondering who my precursors are, why when searching for christ do i take borges of my shelf ?

listening to es and wheez on pulp hits,
drugs as boredom ?

reading edie sedwick oral bio, she was an entrance to another world for warhol,
and it was a tarted up tourists life for both of them