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In 2023, the novelist Cormac McCarthy died. His first published work came out the year I was born. He wrote what I would call mainstream westerns & apocalypses. I’ve only read The Road. At the time there were some interviews with him re-floated, in which his low use of punctuation is given some air time, and how he got there.

writing and reading densities, the proverb, the pun, the multitool and worlding a life This post is: While in the space of making a ‘three-parter’ on the…—gap, my daughter has mentioned that she has read a few posts (in 2023) on the substack version of why we should, if only because I mentioned her in one post, and she said,…

The sky pool The quote on Aldous Huxley at the end. this one links it to monotropism in hindsight Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves & Fyodor Dostoevsky

Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves and a cameo by Fyodor Dostoevsky In this post I’ll try to connect two writers on the subject of the alphabet. The key theme is how alphabets by their very mnenomic natures double-down in various lifelines, or directions, one of which is writing and so… —being a writer. Writing both allows communication and better ways to…

Reading Gilles Deleuze’s Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life. Zone Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT. 2005. ISBN9781890951252 I’ve begun a project in which I tackle writing that I find difficult to read. This in order to write in a more understandable way. That is, to see if helps put me in their shoes. I found this book by Deleuze on a dear friend’s…