As one who is barely interested in politics, I'm fully overcome by the greatness of Orwell--his conscience, his insight, his style. Highly... 展开 3 Proton2013-12-02 07:40:28 George Orwell, what else can I say? 偷用了他这篇文章的题目作为我optional essay的题目。他和Joan Didion的两篇...
I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because they seemed to sum up, in a no-nonsense way, all I have to tell you. Like many writers I have only this one “subject,” this one “area”: the act of writing. I can bring you no reports from any other fron...
In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to the specific, to the tangible, to what was generally considered, by everyone I knew then and for that matter have known since, the peripheral. I would try to contemplate the Hegelian dialectic and would find mysel...
why_i_write--joan_didion批注本地保存成功开通会员云端永久保存去开通 Why I Write Joan Didion Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words:Why I Write. There you have three short unambiguous words that share...
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Why I Write Joan Didion The repetitive lull of the waves marking the ordinary days in your life, while the unpredictable nature of the tides and currents correlate to the earth shattering moments you experience. Writing is the expression of thought and ideas that have been stored on a tangible...
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Joan Didion said, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” I know where she’s coming from. Blogging can be difficult for me because I start off intending to write about one thing and...
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In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It's an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellip...