writing
“The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that. The reader, we must remember, does not start by knowing what we mean. If our words are ambiguous, our meaning will escape him. I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open
... See moreIn an age of over-mediation, it is perhaps inevitable that, when one begins one’s writing life, the self is viewed as the default subject, and the pseudo-empiricist interpretation of the world through the naive-but-evolving self as the default mode of seeing.
the perils of writing about oneself
“naive-but-evolving self”
“walking inevitably takes on a narrative quality.”
Sorkin, Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
al muwatta’ means the well-trodden path - shamsy’s notes on writing transforming thought
some essays on how to write essays (p. 1)
late-review.com
“Travel is generative even locally, at the scale of the neighborhood.“
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