Word Acts: Why We Write
Lawrence Willson brings us a short poem which could serve as an explanation for and justification of Open Writing.
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Writing is the art of not forgetting.
We write things down to recall them by name.
But things are not their names. Things are events.
So we write to remember what happens.
Names are but labels for things, just pointers.
Names do not contain things but gesture them.
Names do not rule things but are roles things play.
Writing is the act assigning things roles.
