So. You're living some kind of life and not sure what it means? First question to ask is: is it broadcastable? Can you #livetweet it? Tip One is to use exclamation marks with restraint.
Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks bristle with soundbytes. Brain Pickings' compilation of aphorisms from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh is a gloriously rewarding read. Short-form thinking. I'll have what she's having:
Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks bristle with soundbytes. Brain Pickings' compilation of aphorisms from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh is a gloriously rewarding read. Short-form thinking. I'll have what she's having:
I’m now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I want to denounce everybody, tell everybody off. I go to my typewriter as I might go to my machine gun. But I’m safe. I don’t have to face the consequences of ‘real’ aggressivity. I’m sending out colis piégés ['booby-trapped packages'] to the world.
(7/31/73)
