“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, August 8, 2011

Spooky Writing

...perhaps again it's just because I gave myself a particularly difficult homework exercise in writing this book. But I find myself genuinely disturbed, even frightened, by some of the ideas I'm putting down.

When you're really immersed in writing strange things happen. Like I was just choosing some lettuce in the Safeway around the corner when a major, major revelation occurred to me. You remember these weird interstitial places in which real thinking occurs. Just before that I wrote about two thousand words at the local Toyota dealership while the Prius was being cleaned. Surrounded by the grayest, grimmest possible gear, with some sports conversation playing on the TV.

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