Crying as much as possible. Having a job eventually please. Poetry, creative nonfiction, short story. Editing text for clarity and comprehensiveness. Philosophy, classic literature, memoir. Painting, sculpting, and drawing faces. Disruptive and “ascetic” dissociation from experience: food avoidance, bodily neglect. Trauma and narrative fracture; memory and its disfigurement. The figure of the Holy Fool; a childlike perspective defamiliarizing & making potentially sacred, especially in the works of Dostoevsky. Other archetypes, especially the ones that are super reductive and insulting. Just kidding. Folk and fairy tales. Human universals. Sensitivity, receptivity, ethics; ways to live well. The child’s mind. Relationships between individuals: responsibility and blameworthiness, honesty; the unforgivable act. The insidiousness of secrecy and shame. Dangers of metafiction, general self-reflexivity in literature and life, including obsessive/narcissistic. Being silly but also powerful. Strange loops (Hofstadter-Möbius). The meaningful contradiction. Rabbits and bunnies, purity, innocence. Pattern recognition, prey behavior; love. Obligation to craft; willingness to share control with one’s creation––Shelley’s hideous progeny. Suffering wisely. Textiles. The grace of humor. Forgiveness.
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