writing as thinking or writing to understand
My reason is existential. By writing the things that pop into my head down into my notebook, I teach my brain that those ideas - my ideas - are worthy of being written down at all.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
Each note becomes another brick of the house I’m building, a monument to a simple yet elusive truth: that what I notice is worth noticing.
"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
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Borges names his essays as “inquisitions.” He is less concerned with presenting a belief and more concerned with pondering and conjecture.
for example: in “The Wall and the Books” his writing is essential guessing at the possible reasons the Shih Huang Ti ordered the building of The Great Wall and the burning of all books published before his time.