To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.
"We wanted to make a combination of those things from Berlin," says Mr Guerin, "looking out at the world, rather than looking inward".The Quarterly, in other words, aims to distil the sensibility of the city and use it as an editorial compass to guide its long-form reporting, cultural criticism, interviews, fiction, poetry and photography.
Perhaps it is more useful to use the words "outward" and "inward" to differentiate between those technologies that interact with the outer world at the speed of the lightning-quick mind, and those that serve the inner concerns of the contemplative, reflective and slower soul.
Finally I realized that it was not "Inward Jim" but rather "N-word Jim" that he was referring.
In the time of Shakespeare, "complexion" carried both outward and inward meanings, as did the word "temperate" (externally, a weather condition; internally, a balance of humours).
While a person's hands were resting on his waist, his wrist tendons were stimulated to create a sensation that they were moving inward -- to feel, in other words, as if his waist were shrinking.
This implies a positive slope conductance with a net inward current below threshold – in other words the biophysics of the neuron opposes hyperpolarizing currents in the perithreshold regime.
Hope is a visceral word, relating to deep inward feelings that are easy to identify but hard to describe.
This word transformation suggests going inward where you can access the experience of your true, loving essence.
His photographs became more inward, more autobiographical, and he began scratching words into new and old pictures, paradoxical, desperate-sounding phrases like "Look Out for Hope" or "Hold Still -- Keep Going".
