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Since I’m currently working (hard) at (trying to) writ(e)ing a book, I’ve bumped into that text I for long ha on my desktop, The New Art of Making Books, by Ulises Carrion. How ironic, right? Best is, I apparently read that text before, for I did highlight some sentences (you’ll see, I didn’t remove my notes). Phew! I wouldn’t recall any of that.
Why posting about this? Not to say I may face some early form of « Junior Alzheimer »; I wouldn’t joke about that. (And yet who knows if one’s truly sane/insane!) I just wish to share that extract about books, book writing, book « making », which Carion wrote in 1975. It sounds ages ago and yet the text, to me at least, sounds so fresh. When reading it again, I can only but think of Paul Arden‘s line (and title of one of his books) « Whatever you think, think the opposite« . So what do you think? Amis Frenchies, comment alors ne pas immédiatement songer à Desproges si… « la seule certitude que j’ai, c’est d’être dans le doute« ..? Bref, je retourne à mon travail et me demande…ce que j’écris! |