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Friday, December 21, 2007

The Forest for the Trees

"Chances are you want to write because you are a haunted individual, or a bothered individual, because the world does not sit right with you, or you in it. Chances are you have a deep connection to books because at some point you discovered that they were the one truly safe place to discover and explore feelings that are banished from the dinner table, the cocktail party, the golf foursome, the bridge game. Because the writers who mattered to you have dared to say I am a sick man. And because within the world of books there is no censure. In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies..."
~from Betsy Lerner's The Forest for the Trees

Writing is a very self-indulgent craft. It's like eating - it's generally good for you, but too much of it will make you bitter and ugly. And if I go into writing, it will be because of the reasons Lerner has said. I will write because I do not sit with the world; because somehow I know I am sick, and the people around me are sick and do not know it; because I am, to quote von Sacher-Masoch, suprasensual.

I wish now to write a thousand terrible lines to find the perfect one and plant on it the tree of me.

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In the grand scheme of things, what we think do not matter. But in the grand scheme of things, it does not matter that it does not matter.

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