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Saturday
It is no less clear that the sense of the double has taken up as a dream, a shadow, a mirror, or an alter ego. And it is within the last one that I’ve found the works of Oe to be just as relevant when it comes to my obsession over the double–the others. It…
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Friday
They want me to write what they want . The university. I’m digressing but I’m only digressing from the instructions of assignments, which want me to “digress” towards a different way. But I’m only digressing, and they don’t like what I’m doing. Am I here to learn how to digress? Do I really think that…
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Thursday
Nothing for today
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Wednesday
I played the play “Cosmos.” A thing led to another. It was the weirdest thing. I was both the actor and the act. How can I be both. The play played in my head. I am the play. I play it in my head, or it plays it in my head. I am the director,…
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Monday
I was at a coffee shop on 15th street and saw Gombrowicz and he said that a a complex man is… something something of a someone who can simplify himself whenever he wanted to. And that most of all, he can also complicate himself whenever he wanted to. I asked, well what makes a man…
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Sunday
Sometimes I feel like I don’t even exist, like I’m just there, you know. And sometimes what I say don’t make sense, but I go on saying it just so I can make sense of it but even then… do I know myself if I do not know the others, on whom I depend and…
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Saturday
Directness. Does it reach me when I am in relation to others. What will directness do? But no… others being not me, identical, I cannot be others.
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Friday
I was under the shadow of someone. I on others. Others on I, an image of others. Others upon the image of others. I within myself. I, an image, within myself. I… an image. No. Is this a variation of Sartre’s regard d’autrui? A nameless someone that belongs to no one. A shadowless shadow. And…
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Henry David Thoreau’s Influence on Me
Henry David Thoreau has been a significant figure whose works have influenced me substantially. Notably, his emphasis on nature in the book Walden and conscience in the essay “Civil Disobedience” have shaped and enlarged the bounds of my thinking and compositions. The fulfillment of our lives is the blooming of nature, and what we are…
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