walkingtalkingwriting emerged from the wilderness; a wilderness of hurt and ‘well, what do we do now?’ and ‘where do we go from here?’ A place (or position) that was well captured by some of the bleaker parts of Dartmoor and at the same time belonged in the great cities of the world–cities being spaces that…
ref: mmj Post 21 Oct 2006 12.05 : ‘THISISABOOK… The uncertain task… to condense and funnel… a work entitled "Istanbul" ‘. ak describes the uncertain task this way – ‘making the invisible visible’. The invisible moment. In other words an event: 1. for the art of making the present visible; ref Anne Carson, The Economy…
Because there are too many thoughts folded in, one upon the other, interleaved, without apparent order, I fear there will be a somewhat random unfolding of experiences and interpretations. One thing I read (in Istanbul) and was forcibly struck by, was Anne Carson (in Economy of the Unlost) quoting (in a footnote on page 105)…
Categories (2024) are:
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.