Re-Noted: Eminem's Boxes of Notes
“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.”
Haruki Murakami
Tiffany Ng • Work better this year or don't, it's your life
We don’t know what to make of any of this yet, but our minds quietly file it under “Semyon, Stuff About,” and “Marya, Stuff About.” Our expectation, given the extreme frugality of the form, is that the stuff in those files will prove meaningful later.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
I got the essay book “The Crack Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald this week, but didn’t realize until yesterday that there are only 8 essays and it’s 75% logs that were too weird or random to make it into his published work.
Inspired by how Festing Jones organized Samuel Butler’s notebook, he did the same thing by organizing how own fragments under alphabe
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