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Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Stuckness

In meta on 26 July 2010 tagged howto, process, self-hatred, telegraphy, work, writing

I’m trying to develop a taxonomy of stuckness, of the ways that I can’t work. It’s really helpful for me because if I can’t work — specifically, if I can’t write something halfway decent — I start to lose my mind; working is how I manage my depression and self-hatred, because yes I’m seeing a [...]

Notes on Gertrude Stein and the automatic read/write of mouth and hand

In note, writing on 18 April 2010 tagged automata, burroughs, psychology, stein, writing

Following the theoretical work of F.W.H. Myers and William James came the German psychologist Hugo Münsterberg, in his lab in Harvard, working with two students — Leon Solomon and Gertrude Stein. The experiments were with automatic reading and writing: “The subject reads in a low voice, and preferably something comparatively uninteresting, while the operator reads [...]

“A solitary joyousness”

In note, writing on 18 April 2010 tagged notes, travel, writing

To relax I’m rereading a book I loved in my childhood: Freya Stark’s The Valleys of the Assassins. She was a hero of mine, speaking Farsi and Arabic (and Latin, Italian, French) and walking all over the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1920s, particularly remote corners of Iran, hanging out with Lurs and Kurds, transcribing [...]