Status Updates From Essayism

a swarming, a teeming, a preamble, a measurement, a judgement, a weighing, a flourish, writing ‘undigested motions’, an effort, a trying, an experiment, a control which ‘liberates development’

“Ability in an essay is multiplicity, infinite fracture, the intercrossing of opposed forces establishing any number of opposed centres of stillness” - William Carlos Williams

Schlegel:

‘A fragment, like a miniature work of art, has to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world and complete in itself like a porcupine.’