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So here we have two ideas: the wood and the path. The wood, or the forest if you like, is a wild space. It’s an unstructured space. It’s a space full of possibilities. It’s a space where anything can happen
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
Raleigh and a young friend sit entranced by a wizened old sailor who is pointing to an immense sea, captivating them with tales of what lies on the other side. The story, on Millais’s interpretation, gives birth to a longing that will govern and direct all of Raleigh’s life.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
EB White:
... See more“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and ta
The mystical writer uses the myth of his genius to gain power. He (since it is almost always a he) benefits from keeping up the illusions that he has natural talent and that writing cannot be taught.
Matthew Salesses • Craft in the Real World
Ulysses is for me the prototype of … modern man … (and) the man of the future as well, because he represents the type of the ‘trapped’ voyager. His journey was a voyage toward the centre, toward Ithaca, which is to say, toward himself. He was a fine navigator, but destiny – spoken here in terms of trials of initiation which he had to overcome – for
... See moreChristopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
You're walking in the forest. You find a semi-abandoned hut and sit down at the table. After drinking a glass of water and quickly meditating, you open up your notebook. The page is empty.
Thomas Merton, you tell your notebook.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist Monk, it responds - You may have already read his famous book "The Seven Storey Mountain" which
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So we each become, in a sense, a poet of our own psyches.