Art as the material excrement produced when you self-transcend, selling your self in a buyer's market, 10,001 strategies for leveraging your friendship with a reclusive poet.

- “The Culture of Celebrity,” Joseph Epstein (Oct. 2005): http://tws.io/2l86EaU
- “Jean Cocteau, The Art of Fiction No. 34.” Interview by Joseph Fifield (1964): http://bit.ly/2m38bOV
- “What Is Art?” by Leo Tolstoy (1897): http://bit.ly/2mGLZXU
- “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka (1922; tr. Ian Johnston, 2009): https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm
- "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges (1941): http://hispanlit.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2011/06/Borges-Pierre-Menard.pdf