RP: I've Been So Busy Today, I'm Taking a BREAK from Writing -- a Subject Joan Didion Will Explain More About -- to My Gentle Readers:

For WIDER GRAPHICS: https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2021/01/ive-been-so-busy-today-im-taking-break.html

Mayor "Bill" Saffo, D.A. Benjamin R. David, Sheriff Ed McMahon -- and a HOST of Christian or Christian-Acting POLITICIANS!!!

Joan Didion

Joan Didion: Why I Write

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means."

By Joan Didion

January 26, 2021

In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions—with the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than stating—but there’s no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writer’s sensibility on the reader’s most private space.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.

https://lithub.com/joan-didion-why-i-write/

Joan Didion as she occurs in my memoir -- in two consecutive chapters:

https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-26-goodman-stands-firm.html

https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-27-scare-dare-and-preview.html

https://tennesseewilliams.net/

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