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pairedaeza

Self-portraits are a form of diary-keeping, and diary-keeping is a kind of self-portrait. An embodied reading of these two genres enables us to rethink their temporal and phenomenological status as documents of self-writing, and to see them as attempts to come to terms with the ways in which the body both hinders and helps the artist or writer to carry out her imaginative work.

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beefchoy

normal things with creepy connotations:

  1. stopped clocks
  2. people accidentally speaking in unison
  3. cold wind at night (when it’s not snowing)
  4. seeing a light go off in a window
  5. static in the air - everyone’s hair is standing up
  6. slow piano music in a place that’s otherwise silent
  7. finding something you lost a long time ago sitting in plain sight
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“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”

Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review

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