I decided I could do better, outlined an idea over much Chianti and, when I went back to London to write, discovered my natural voice.
As Scott wrote: Discovering Raoul Ruiz is like stumbling into a secret room in an old, echoey mansion.
Hoskins, Dewey wrote, discovered "that there was a tendency for certain business behaviors to repeat at fairly regular intervals.
"He was a complete tyro," Mr. Callow wrote, "discovering a new medium and unsure how it would work".
Young radicals, Herzen wrote, discovered a "complete contradiction of the words they were taught with the facts of life around them".
Tyler Cowen, one of the authors of the popular Marginal Revolution blog, wrote "Discover Your Inner Economist".
What they did want, he said, "was to read and write and discover new content, but around the content itself".
Flannery O'Connor has said that she has to write to "discover what [she's] doing".
Nevertheless, there hangs about them a suggestion of something dark and disturbing, profound almost, as if Simenon had, through a technique not very far from automatic writing, discovered something fundamental about the soul.
Among the confirmed items: a 66-foot floating dock that washed up near Newport, Ore . a derelict fishing boat found near Crescent City, Calif.; and a soccer ball with Japanese writing discovered on a remote Alaskan island and traced to a 16-year-old boy in Japan.
