THE WRITER’S TASK July 15, 2006
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Scott Russell Sanders said in an interview that “One task of the writer is to reclaim and rehabilitate the language.” I think I need to read his new (2006) book, A Private History of Awe. I’d like to see what he has done with the word awe. Knowing Scott, he has probably made it worth thinking about in new ways and maybe even risk experiencing ….
GRIEF July 14, 2006
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Paul Lefebvre, who writes for my favorite Vermont weekly, the Chronicle, has been writing about the death of his longtime partner, and said in a recent column: “Over the last few months I have learned that grief takes many forms and can come over you when you least expect it. Without warning, you drop emotionally through a trap door. It’s on those mornings, or sometimes evenings when the heat of day still clings to the air, that the thrush’s song reminds me that after so much sorrow comes joy; that grief comes and goes with a force all its own; and that the passion of loss like the passion of love is as inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun.”
WRITING July 4, 2006
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Susan Sontag said, “If I thought what I’m doing when I write is expressing myself, I’d junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity than that.”
