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On the beginning of the titular essay, Joan Didion describes a writer’s goal, which is to freeze in time their personal phantasmagoria. Not knowing what it was, I had to Google what that meant. I then wrote down my paraphrase of the Google definition, “dream like sequences of images.”
— Mar 20, 2025 08:52PM
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I have so much time for Joan Didion's essays, MANY MANSIONS and HOLY WATER. So amazed as to how many trains of thought can converge into one piece...
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Mar 20, 2025 08:54PM
Didion’s ‘The White Album’ essay is an immersive phantasmagoria that perfectly captures the impending doom that played through the background of the oh-so joyous 60s. Honestly, I feel affirmed as a writer who loves to hopscotch and present various tiny stories to convey a point, we love you Joan Didion a girl for the attention deficit writers!! She just does this writing form so well, and the rhythm in which her words bounce and roll off your tongue is so good!!
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A sidenote, my quest of reading Why Nations Fail was getting boring (ugh the writing style I think got less interesting) so i started this book up… 30+ pages have never flew so fast…
