That I can cook a meal for my children, or take a long walk on the beach, or watch an osprey wheel through the sky, or set down a page of thoughts — these are moments of grace.
That I can cook a meal for my children, or take a long walk on the beach, or watch an osprey wheel through the sky, or set down a page of thoughts – these are moments of grace.
Grossman described it as "a book about real people who happen to be superheros or supervillains" and that if it were a comic, it would be "page after page of thought balloons".
To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas -- the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
We don't want to give up our experience of reading as an "opening" into another mind, as a progressive exploration, registered in the turning of pages, of thoughts that originated elsewhere.
"We're used to getting one or two pages of thoughts out of this sort of testing, which often isn't very valuable or actionable," says Kirstin Hoefer, the director of network programming at Excite@Home.
You could spend all day poring over them, with their landscape watercolours and drawings, bits of bodies, Christ as an erect penis, pages of poems, thoughts on art and religious sentiment.
A page or two of thoughts written down can calm you enough to restore the need for sleep.
After just a few weeks, I had accumulated 80-some pages of random thoughts, recollected dialogues, stream-of-consciousness to-do lists and the occasional cogent observation.
Hamsun wrote to Langen that "every chapter is a poem, every line worked hard on," and every page, he thought, was "havey of thoughts and fantasi".
Once I filled up a page or ran out of thoughts, I'd jump into the next source and begin writing.
