@rivatez there's a good anais nin riff too https://t.co/ZHIGlELfnc
⦿ points out a profound or at least solid and judicious observation;
= signifies that the sentence or passage in a line with it contains majesty of conception or style;
|| signifies sublimity;
✖︎ brilliance or ingenuity;
Q signifies characteristic quaintness;
F , that it contains an error in fact or philosophy.
ReNoted: Marginalia, or 5 Ways to Write in Your Books
“Trust your obsessions. This is one I learned more or less accidentally. People sometimes ask whether the research or the idea for the story comes first for me. And I tell them, normally the first thing that turns up is the obsession: for example, all of a sudden I notice that I’m reading nothing but English 17th century metaphysical verse. And I k... See more
See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write — on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
I think what I tend to notice a lot are the conceptual connections between things and ideas that may otherwise go unnoticed. Whether it’s a big news story or a faint signal, I tend to see connections between that and something else — an event, or an idea or a happening that is seemingly unrelated. I’m trying to draw threads between, for instance, e
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