I feel like writing is a form of evocation. To recall memory and explore the senses. You do not have to have lived a sensory to invoke it, you can understand through a lived life and similarities. I would also argue that writing is an evocation for it’s upheaval. To call upon Apollo or Dionysus or the muses. To call to any god or fragment of the un

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Essay Card 5: Why I Write
Temperance Theme: Writing as self-alchemy and psychic balance
Interpretation:
This is Temperance at its most sacred. Didion writes to discover what she thinks, to locate the shimmer and shape it into structure. Image becomes sentence. Chaos becomes clarity. Writing is the angel’s cup: it holds what the self cannot contain alo

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