Thursday, April 05, 2018

advice for writers

The writer no more creates writing than the electrician creates electricity. Invisible currents move at their own speed, out there, among unknown elements – and the writer merely captures a bit of that invisible world in the poor conductors available to him, and measures it and deludes others – though not himself – that he made the conductor, the current, the speeds and fluctuations. 

New, yes, to our science, but not to that invisible world itself. Nothing is new or old, there. 



No comments:

Nemesis precedes Justicia: the impunity point in the American 21st century

One of the reasons, I think, that the Epstein affair has sort of haunted the American 21st century is that it is emblematic of the rise of i...