Post 26: Something about writing
Unrelated photo about how not to hold a burrito according to Super Burrito in Brooklyn. (?) I’m frequently thinking about the prospect of writing. How likely something is--in terms of what it is, what happens, the way that it happens or doesn’t happen–to be transformed into writing. “Likely” is a funny word to use since it seems to imply that what the writing is exists outside the bounds of my choices. Likeliness should really be attributed to my own odds to participate in such an act as writing, but I think I mean it here more in the sense of how close something may seem already, as it is, to be or become writing. (What gives something the sense of being like writing, like something written, of appearing to have a smooth path of transition into it? Do certain things ask to be written about in a way that others don’t?) How fitting would an object, a person, a scenario be to the structures that writing can provide? Or, how much would I want one of these things to be writing? How diffi...