Hi Tilla,
>I find myself as a writer rather outside the idea of 'truth'
Yes, I think this is really the state in a lot of the writing I admire too,
that it is creating, not _telling as such. There are lines, colours, shapes,
movements, songs... And in creating a thing, talk about truth seems just
irrelevant. This goes for writings in philosophy too, i think, which are
sculptural before anything else.
And also that there are other sorts of writing where an appeal to the "truth
of an x" - self/statement - is made. And that there isn't really a conflict
between these. Probably i was wrong to locate a split in perceptions
anywhere, let alone in styles of writing.
Best,
Edmund
>From: Tilla Brading <[log in to unmask]>
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>I find myself as a writer rather outside the idea of 'truth' (see Polly and
>Keston debate) as I'm creating something in a space. I think that a lot of
>writing I admire is also not directly engaged with truthı.
>If writing is more concerned with language and connects with someone else
>I
>think its because of some shared sensibility or, that over-used word,
>resonance. I'm not sure that truth comes into the sort of writing which
>interests me most unless the writing is about facts and motivated by the 'I
>say/believe/think-and want to tell you' mode which doesnıt invalidate it
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>its just a different sort of writing.
>OK,
>I'll go back to sleep,
>Tilla
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