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“I want to travel with an affinity that is discreet, diverse, loosely convened but moving with purpose. I want each book I write to be an affinity of sorts, and within it each essay or fragment in turn an affinity of ideas, images, moods and citations. It is not enough to want this—you have to perform it, and one of the perils of writing is that I may only describe my affinity, and fail to embody it.”
― Affinities
― Affinities
“This is one curious effect of the essay as experiment in attention: it invariably departs from the objects at hand to enter realms of speculation and even fantasy, because that is the liberty that such attention allows.”
― Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
― Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
