I have serious writer's block lately. I read, listen to music, do various other things, but am feeling unhappy with myself.
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Writing is a funny enterprise. If I know exactly what I want to write I can do it.
The writing which really interests me though is the writing that I don't know how to do.
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Aleatory writing, procedural writing, is a way around writer's block.
But I'm not particularly interested in chance generated writing.
I am, though, interested in writing which takes chances.
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Writing, at its best, braids epistemology and ontology. Being and knowing can't be separated. A thing is a thing only insofar as it exists in relation to other things.
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"A thing is a thing only insofar as it exists in relation to other things." Man, Tom, don't let Graham or Tim catch you privileging relations like that. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd respond to that line, John.
ReplyDeleteI'm as predictable as they come, Tom. Or, as Logan Piersall Smith put it in More Trivia:
ReplyDeleteTHE GOAT
In the midst of my anecdote a sudden misgiving chilled me—had I told them about this Goat before? And then as I talked there gaped upon me—abyss opening beneath abyss—a darker speculation: when goats are mentioned, do I automatically and always tell this story about the Goat at Portsmouth?