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[archaist]

A neat little exercise in a book I'm reading about novel-writing. Finish these two sentences with paragraphs

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[moxiemylove]

i like this description of it (the experience of reading) from Dionne Brand when she was writing a tribute to an old friend: "If you came from the same place as Harold Sonny Ladoo, you were likely to think, as he likely did, that books held the possibility of changing your life, that they could take you to other places, that they could free you of any reality, that reading them was not an impassive act, that the person who entered them was not the same person who emerged from them, that they changed some tissue in the brain, revealed some truth that clarified your condition, and that rescued you, and that the best of them called you into a communion with other human beings against solitude, against torment, against misery"

Anyway, a tall order, maybe, but good distillations of the experience and your goal.

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[archaist]

Thank you for that, my oldest and best livejournal friend. I feel less alone now, seeing as my sentiment is shared at least in an "if" by a notable Canadian author.

Also, it's nice to "see" you again (for lack of a better word).