Timeless
"So we need to be precise about our concepts. a woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac. she is a lover. but my friend who makes photocopies of his love letters to publish them someday is a graphomanic. graphomania is not a desire to write letters, personal diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or one's close relations) BUT A DESIRE TO WRITE BOOKS (to have a public of unknown readers). In that senses, the taxi driver and Goethe share the same passion. what distinguishes Goethe from the taxi driver is not a difference in passions but one passion's different resuts.
Graphomania (a mania from writing books) inevitabley takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions:
(1) an elevated level of general well-being, which allows people to devote themselves to such useless activities;
(2) a high degree of social atomization and, as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;
(3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life....----->
........But by a backlash, the effect affects the cause. general isolation breeds graphomania, and generalized graphomania in turn intensifies and worsens isolation...<----------------
THE INVENTION OF PRINTING FOMERLY ENABLED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER. IN THE ERA OF UNIVERSAL GRAPHOMANIA, THE WRITING OF BOOKS HAS AN OPPOSITE MEANING: EVERYONE SURROUNDED BY HIS OWN WORDS AS BY A WALL OF MIRRORS, WHICH ALLOWS NO VOICE TO FILTER THROUGH FROM THE OUTSIDE."
milan kundera is THE man.
.heart, vickie "and I am THE woman".
Graphomania (a mania from writing books) inevitabley takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions:
(1) an elevated level of general well-being, which allows people to devote themselves to such useless activities;
(2) a high degree of social atomization and, as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals;
(3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life....----->
........But by a backlash, the effect affects the cause. general isolation breeds graphomania, and generalized graphomania in turn intensifies and worsens isolation...<----------------
THE INVENTION OF PRINTING FOMERLY ENABLED PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER. IN THE ERA OF UNIVERSAL GRAPHOMANIA, THE WRITING OF BOOKS HAS AN OPPOSITE MEANING: EVERYONE SURROUNDED BY HIS OWN WORDS AS BY A WALL OF MIRRORS, WHICH ALLOWS NO VOICE TO FILTER THROUGH FROM THE OUTSIDE."
milan kundera is THE man.
.heart, vickie "and I am THE woman".