No comments on this essay feels like a crime against humanity. So lucky you gets the crazy below.
> The engine running so well it generates a simulation of its own silence, without actually falling silent?
These are the kind of thoughts I like best.
I also received an internal reward on reading your use of “sun-warmed minds”.
And yet the writer writes in a writerly fashion…
I’m conflicted about it all.
My issue with writing, particularly writing for style, is the ego that arises with it. The combined conviction that “my thoughts are important enough to broadcast” and “they are also very tastefully packaged”. But I sense a humility here that is rare in a writer and an American - normally a diabolical duo - likely because you are actually not the latter.
Now that I’m done insulting everyone...
Thank you for your effort. It was a pleasure to read. I almost see you through the haze. Almost.
Thanks for reaching back. “Almost” is something. The humility is mostly South African awkwardness about American self-promotion, tbh. And the ego’s still there, trust me. It just apologises more.
No comments on this essay feels like a crime against humanity. So lucky you gets the crazy below.
> The engine running so well it generates a simulation of its own silence, without actually falling silent?
These are the kind of thoughts I like best.
I also received an internal reward on reading your use of “sun-warmed minds”.
And yet the writer writes in a writerly fashion…
I’m conflicted about it all.
My issue with writing, particularly writing for style, is the ego that arises with it. The combined conviction that “my thoughts are important enough to broadcast” and “they are also very tastefully packaged”. But I sense a humility here that is rare in a writer and an American - normally a diabolical duo - likely because you are actually not the latter.
Now that I’m done insulting everyone...
Thank you for your effort. It was a pleasure to read. I almost see you through the haze. Almost.
Thanks for reaching back. “Almost” is something. The humility is mostly South African awkwardness about American self-promotion, tbh. And the ego’s still there, trust me. It just apologises more.