Syd, great piece, and I love the way that, structurally, you actually make the dust return. I can't adequately explain how your feelings and experiences mirror my own, especially in how people seem shocked at how prolific I am. I, like you, am also still searching for the meaning of life, hoping to find the key to the Book of Answers among the words of my next poem or story or essay. Recognizing that will never happen, I embrace my life-long modus operandi: start one project, finish that project, then start another, and so on and so until I die. This approach distracts me form the frightening absurdity of life I first realized when I was about ten. The result? I'm happy and have a real body of work behind me, and even a dummy eventually ends up writing pretty good stuff if he's persistent.
Syd, great piece, and I love the way that, structurally, you actually make the dust return. I can't adequately explain how your feelings and experiences mirror my own, especially in how people seem shocked at how prolific I am. I, like you, am also still searching for the meaning of life, hoping to find the key to the Book of Answers among the words of my next poem or story or essay. Recognizing that will never happen, I embrace my life-long modus operandi: start one project, finish that project, then start another, and so on and so until I die. This approach distracts me form the frightening absurdity of life I first realized when I was about ten. The result? I'm happy and have a real body of work behind me, and even a dummy eventually ends up writing pretty good stuff if he's persistent.
Thanks so much, Peter! Your good opinion means a lot to me, coming from one who is anything BUT a dummy!