I used to write all the time. When I was a Junior in high school, they "promoted" me from being an English student to an English teacher. I was apparently more useful as the latter. I guess that was their line of thinking. I did prove to be a superb English teacher: my high school still uses the 11th Grade English curriculum that I designed & enacted.
Then one day I decided to completely throw away & estrange myself from any associations of being "a writer", "a skilled writer", "a genius writer"... Words; it dawned on me that oratory is a skill I wanted no affiliation with. Politicians, businessmen, stockbrokers, lawyers... That's oratory's place. I wanted to be a person of actions. The more you act, the more your necessary reliance on language falls away; the more UNnecessary it becomes.
... Yes, I know how much irony & hypocrisy you probably see; after all, I'm writing about the futility & triviality of writing.
But I'm full of contradictions. Any well-developed person is. & frankly I don't feel like going into the incredibly long, semi-philosophical explanations that would be necessary to make the above text not seem ironic & hypocratic.
Another irony & contradiction in & of itself.
Is your brain twisted yet? ... Probably not; you're doing the easy job: you're just reading this. I have to write it. (Besides, if you've read this far, there's a 95% you're me, rereading what I wrote.)
Are you confused yet?
"I won't write my right poem 'til I'm in my right mind."
Then one day I decided to completely throw away & estrange myself from any associations of being "a writer", "a skilled writer", "a genius writer"... Words; it dawned on me that oratory is a skill I wanted no affiliation with. Politicians, businessmen, stockbrokers, lawyers... That's oratory's place. I wanted to be a person of actions. The more you act, the more your necessary reliance on language falls away; the more UNnecessary it becomes.
... Yes, I know how much irony & hypocrisy you probably see; after all, I'm writing about the futility & triviality of writing.
But I'm full of contradictions. Any well-developed person is. & frankly I don't feel like going into the incredibly long, semi-philosophical explanations that would be necessary to make the above text not seem ironic & hypocratic.
Another irony & contradiction in & of itself.
Is your brain twisted yet? ... Probably not; you're doing the easy job: you're just reading this. I have to write it. (Besides, if you've read this far, there's a 95% you're me, rereading what I wrote.)
Are you confused yet?
"I won't write my right poem 'til I'm in my right mind."
