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I have a vision of my mind sharing discourse with another, not in language as I know it, but in gestures made of flesh, bleeding paper mouths, and the noises of time. A vision of bodies decaying as flawlessly as black-and-white images, so sharp their edges could cut my eyes just by looking at them.
— Aug 17, 2022 02:14PM
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Vain and cruel, I have become a self that contains all negations to come, I have escaped the universe of time and space—page after page, touch after touch, train after train. I have become the idea of a sea beast moving in the deep. I have become the labyrinth. I am entombed in poetry. In the first stanza, in the last, in the blueness of thirsting ink—in the bruising of eternity. I have become alone. I am alone.
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Aug 16, 2022 02:28PM
Probably the most persuasive reason I've read for why to write.
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Tudor-Sideri does not write 'I write to know I am alive'—a more life-affirming way of phrasing what would superficially appear to be a similar sentiment. However, it is the writer's perspective inherent in the chosen phrasing that alters the arc of its effect on the reader. The phrase 'I write to know I am not dead' implies that the writer feels close to a dead state or perhaps is 'living among the dead.' To write at this point, then, is to clarify to oneself one's position of not dead, though still perhaps dead-adjacent. To write, to form words on a page, is to create and one who is dead cannot create. Ergo, if we are still writing, we are not dead.
