weird toes
I just got around to seeing "The Hours" & all the extra stuff on DVD last night. One of the extras was a micro-biography of Virginia Woolf.
One thing stuck: she was quoted as encouraging everyone to write all the time, because nothing is real until it is written down.
That little stone is causing so many ripples in my head.
Ripple one: the writing is what makes something real, and the way you write it -- sometimes more or less factual, sometimes the way it should have been -- is what is "real." So many things seem unreal even as they happen around you, even if and as they spring from you. It is certainly true that in the act of writing, choosing one word and then another, rejecting the other limitless possibilities -- ambiguities and contradictions must be resolved (or at least acknowledged). Whatever happened is gone, and memories are so fluid. The writing is what makes history.
Ripple two: imagination/creativity as history. . .
These ideas are probably older than hieroglyphics, but they are new to me so let me revel in them for a while!
I got totally off track from my "weird toes" story and now I am verrrrry sleeeeeeepy.
One thing stuck: she was quoted as encouraging everyone to write all the time, because nothing is real until it is written down.
That little stone is causing so many ripples in my head.
Ripple one: the writing is what makes something real, and the way you write it -- sometimes more or less factual, sometimes the way it should have been -- is what is "real." So many things seem unreal even as they happen around you, even if and as they spring from you. It is certainly true that in the act of writing, choosing one word and then another, rejecting the other limitless possibilities -- ambiguities and contradictions must be resolved (or at least acknowledged). Whatever happened is gone, and memories are so fluid. The writing is what makes history.
Ripple two: imagination/creativity as history. . .
These ideas are probably older than hieroglyphics, but they are new to me so let me revel in them for a while!
I got totally off track from my "weird toes" story and now I am verrrrry sleeeeeeepy.