Prose & Druggle
Questions:
What is "Druggle"?
Why don't you write in essay form?
What's with your way
of talking
in brief
phrases
on each line?
Whenever I try to write an essay, off the top of my head, it tends to come out off-balanced. So, what I do instead, is draft a set of points, and expand paragraphs based on them. However, those points have to come from somewhere, right?
Well, those points come from conversations... sometimes with myself, sometimes via "electronic mail", sometimes via talking to people in my dreams. In a way, they are all with myself, though, because I often have knowledge which I'm not consciously aware of until I express it. This is In My Heretical/Humble Opinion the meaning to "overstanding" something; it's not that you really comprehend it totally; it is more than you ride a wave of wisdom and let it take you where it does, trusting that place to be better than where you started, and the journey to be enjoyable.
To be a "heretic" means to make a choice; one which doesn't follow the "right angle distraction" which I call the orthodox or common way or path; to some extent, everyone on LJ is already being unorthodox because the "right" thing to do with your time is to consume, produce, and consume some more; not think about things for yourself or, church forbid, write about them.
After all, for a while, the church didn't want anyone but its one soldier (or priests) to read or write... but this is generally seen as a past position, even though even today, there is a sharp distinction between insiders and outsiders, and this is somehow seen as good.
In any case, I'm just rambling aimlessly, because I'm trying to see what's in my mind. I tend to write in a... terse, highly metaphorical manner, in short bursts, with multiple interpetations. Since the best way to be a world leader in a field is to invent it, and I want to rule the world (who doesn't, right?), at least in some way, I feel I've acheived that by coining my style of poetry, "druggle", and calling the verses, "druggs" (pl.).
There's some discussion now about what "Bajan culture" really is.... I'm technically Bajan, and have dwelt here most of my incarnate life; and I would say that if you look to superficial definitions, you'll fail totally to define Bajan culture. Bajan culture is one in which each individual has at least one mask and at least one deeper persona; and this multi-leveled-ness is reflected in everything that happens here.
For example, we just had elections, and the DLP won, taking power from the BLP, which reigned for 3 terms, spanning 15 years or so (I don't really follow politics, but the campaigning was rather intense on both sides), and days after, the leaders of both parties are sitting down calmly talking to each other as if they were the best of friends. Perhaps it's the 350+ years of Parliament; perhaps it's the more recent history of visionary leaders who have emphasized education, and thus, even if by accident, personal power; perhaps we really are Atlantis raised from the waves.... but there's a mature level of discourse, and multiplicity of essence to everything here.
...of course, most people just let TV rot their brains, and act like idiots; but that's a worldwide problem. I don't really blame TV, I'm sure before that, most people just used to run around in the jungle or explore caves, and never do their clay tablet carving practice, or whatever.
Oh, right, this is indirectly a response to the question of why I write how I do, and why I don't write in essay/prose form... it just gets too messy, takes much longer to get right; and druggle is closer to how I perceive the world. I can take my feelings, emotions, rationalizations, and transfer them directly to druggle... but prose requires much more caution, consideration, revision, and planning.
However, I'm trying to improve my essay writing skills, and I told someone I'd write them a sci-fi short story, so I may publish something along those lines here soon.
What is "Druggle"?
Why don't you write in essay form?
What's with your way
of talking
in brief
phrases
on each line?
Whenever I try to write an essay, off the top of my head, it tends to come out off-balanced. So, what I do instead, is draft a set of points, and expand paragraphs based on them. However, those points have to come from somewhere, right?
Well, those points come from conversations... sometimes with myself, sometimes via "electronic mail", sometimes via talking to people in my dreams. In a way, they are all with myself, though, because I often have knowledge which I'm not consciously aware of until I express it. This is In My Heretical/Humble Opinion the meaning to "overstanding" something; it's not that you really comprehend it totally; it is more than you ride a wave of wisdom and let it take you where it does, trusting that place to be better than where you started, and the journey to be enjoyable.
To be a "heretic" means to make a choice; one which doesn't follow the "right angle distraction" which I call the orthodox or common way or path; to some extent, everyone on LJ is already being unorthodox because the "right" thing to do with your time is to consume, produce, and consume some more; not think about things for yourself or, church forbid, write about them.
After all, for a while, the church didn't want anyone but its one soldier (or priests) to read or write... but this is generally seen as a past position, even though even today, there is a sharp distinction between insiders and outsiders, and this is somehow seen as good.
In any case, I'm just rambling aimlessly, because I'm trying to see what's in my mind. I tend to write in a... terse, highly metaphorical manner, in short bursts, with multiple interpetations. Since the best way to be a world leader in a field is to invent it, and I want to rule the world (who doesn't, right?), at least in some way, I feel I've acheived that by coining my style of poetry, "druggle", and calling the verses, "druggs" (pl.).
There's some discussion now about what "Bajan culture" really is.... I'm technically Bajan, and have dwelt here most of my incarnate life; and I would say that if you look to superficial definitions, you'll fail totally to define Bajan culture. Bajan culture is one in which each individual has at least one mask and at least one deeper persona; and this multi-leveled-ness is reflected in everything that happens here.
For example, we just had elections, and the DLP won, taking power from the BLP, which reigned for 3 terms, spanning 15 years or so (I don't really follow politics, but the campaigning was rather intense on both sides), and days after, the leaders of both parties are sitting down calmly talking to each other as if they were the best of friends. Perhaps it's the 350+ years of Parliament; perhaps it's the more recent history of visionary leaders who have emphasized education, and thus, even if by accident, personal power; perhaps we really are Atlantis raised from the waves.... but there's a mature level of discourse, and multiplicity of essence to everything here.
...of course, most people just let TV rot their brains, and act like idiots; but that's a worldwide problem. I don't really blame TV, I'm sure before that, most people just used to run around in the jungle or explore caves, and never do their clay tablet carving practice, or whatever.
Oh, right, this is indirectly a response to the question of why I write how I do, and why I don't write in essay/prose form... it just gets too messy, takes much longer to get right; and druggle is closer to how I perceive the world. I can take my feelings, emotions, rationalizations, and transfer them directly to druggle... but prose requires much more caution, consideration, revision, and planning.
However, I'm trying to improve my essay writing skills, and I told someone I'd write them a sci-fi short story, so I may publish something along those lines here soon.