The Inkhaven3ies will have to wonder
How fast can it take to write 500 words?
How bad can it be while still counting?
I say — to you! If it is your voice, why not! Why shouldn’t it count!
And if you do not like your own voice, steal somebody else’s voice.
Steal Vishal’s voice, or Ben’s voice.
You see, I have not just tequila to consume today.
I have another deadline
another writing deadline.
Yes. You have watched me uphold the blogeppe. But did you not know that I have other writing?
Did you not know this is my fun writing?
Yes, I have other deadlines, and not just these midnightedly-setted
The fastest ‘geppo
gelatto-geppo
As long as any velvet is making contact with your pen, with your keyboard, as long as there is traction with literally any part of you inside of you — I say then it counts
People try to ‘pour out from the soul’ as a posture but you have to find the velvet some of the time, and sometimes when you find the velvet, that is all you find, and you have to give up on other priorities
You think Ulysees was written without this Velvet? You think Virginia Woolf wrote The Waves without this velvet?
I am not being very Johnny Truant here; I am a Thumper who has taken acid.
If you do not know what to write, write about that which excites you, that was so exciting to you that you had forgotten it;
Go to the place where life happens;
and where is it that life happens?
Write what you wrote in your groupchats;
I had written
So what would a wolfman priest do after he sexually devours his high priestess
would he take a nap
would he go back to work
would he keep hanging out
would he play music
I had written, on Japan, to Tomás Bjartur
there are funny dark sushi places in alleyways like in the movies
that wouldn’t let you in as an american without any local
that have 5 types of sushi max, and sake, and indoor smoking
I had called my friend in Japan,
we talked about the thor in thursday. I told her about my research
she misses me and I miss her. she said I love you and I said it back
It was the first time
What does it mean?
Have I slowed down to even ask?
“who’s excited to discuss god’s interior decorating arc”
says a woman I admire
I had written previously on Judaism,
Fun quotes from a friend:
“However, part of the reason there is no priest is because everyone pretty much understands that the Old Testament is a text given to us by a mind so far beyond human comprehension that it’s Cthulhu-esque.
However, just because it’s beyond our comprehension doesn’t mean we can’t *try* to understand it. Judaims is about the journey of understanding God.
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7:34 PM
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“And the only way to do something as precious as that is to not hold back but to ruthlessly examine EVERYTHING to make sure it meets the standard to be attributed to literallly the most perfect being in all of existence
So a Jew arguing with you is a way of saying “your ideas are a thing which can help me approach the divine; let us approach it together”
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7:37 PM
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I had been thinking about philosophy
I had written,
”If I think about something a lot, it must be important to me”
“Actually if I think about something a lot it might be a tangle of confusing / unintegrated philosophical questions I don’t know how to look at, and my actual philosophical foundation is that wordless still pond I never look at over there because it’s just chill and peaceful”
“Maybe I would be happier if I hung out in my pond versus in my tanglewoods”
9 minutes! I am done! I can keep going
I had written, we can play a group game, “things that must be true”
For example, “that everyone who survives past a certain age in all of history learns that someone they cared about has passed, and has experienced that moment”
The woman I hope, to hear from, who I hope to hear from each and every day, she writes back,
this is not necessarily true of the insane!