If we are reading colours not words, does this provide access to luminousness? What do I mean by luminousness? I mean that inner shining forth – what causes an object or a person to glow in a particular way. It is a transparency. It is a looking beyond, a looking through, not just the [...]
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3.1 Read colours not words
Posted in Creating meaning, On writing, tagged Read Colours Not Words, Rob and Nick Carter, The Man with the Blue Guitar, Wallace Stevens on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2.4 What I write about
Posted in On writing, tagged postmodern, Susan Sontag on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have begun to tell people that I want to be a writer. “Novels?’ they ask. ‘Non-fiction’, I say. ‘Do you have a specialist subject?’ one person asked. At which point I fumbled in a most inarticulate manner for words. Susan Sontag called for a return to the earliest experience of art as ‘incantatory, magical’, [...]
1.1 Why I write
Posted in On writing on January 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One recent morning, having finished my sun salutations in my living room, looking out onto a cold winter garden, I happen to look at my bookshelf, and I see the spine of a slim volume – ‘Why I write’ by George Orwell. I unlodge it from where it is nesting. The ochre strip on the [...]
