Isn't it inherently psychotic
#draft #notes #writerly_psychologyIsn’t it inherently psychotic to think that one’s writing has meaning on par with that of the rest of the world (including books and birdsong)?
(Trees have meaning. This is why they can be compared to anything, and the comparison will make sense.)
I wonder how people feel, who don’t believe that they are writers (that there is a sacred use of language which they know how to practice). How would one feel toward language? (would it look more like a screwdriver?) Would one even have feelings toward language? (as I don’t toward screwdrivers, not in that way)
But music? Music expresses a state of being: as such, is legitimate. Rap lyrics are poetry compared to pop lyrics. In that view, poets belong to the priesthood, and I to the tantric fakir’s hut (if any).
I blow bubbles in my bourgeois bath. I call it art and I’m wrong, until the water becomes dark.