1)
This is where i might be when i am inside my studio.
Except there are no windows at all.
Before all my work was made with light from outside.
2)
This evening I spoke to Lilly on the phone which i have not done for a long time. I don't ring friends.
It was really good to speak with her.
3)
This afternoon I went to a reading group about Wittgenstein (Roy Brook's book)
I'm writing this about a group, who talked about a book, which is about Wittgenstein.
People said that in his later work he wrote about how imperfect words are, that it is impossible for them to express what they intend to say.
That things can't be said, only shown.
That he criticises how science claims to hold real value and that science as a discipline insinuates that arts are just for pleasure.
Some one said that he thought Eisenstein demonstrated a deterioration in culture from Chopin.
That his artist parents told him not to do art because he wasn't good enough so he became an engineer, and then found Russell in Cambridge.
That he wrote the work he most esteemed in the trenches
The he had to write and reject his first work before he could make his second
That he discussed the impossibility of describing internal worlds
I think he stayed in Norway on his own for a long time.
He liked poetry
He never studied past philosophers, and advised people not to.
He eventually decided that many things // experiences // cannot be said.
He taught that you have to get out of the arm chair and live them.
4)
This morning I went to a workshop about writing a paper
(and another less memorable on about applying for money about margins and overheads)
The workshop about papers said that writing one is like an upside down triangle
You start at the top and distill down
That you start with your data, your methods and your results , and you write around it
You work out what the grand narrative is out there
And you write your story
And you show it to other people and hear their criticism
You work out what the grand narrative is out there
And you write your story
And you show it to other people and hear their criticism
That it all takes a long time
And that all the time you are involved somewhere in the cycle of it continuously
Even when it is finished, sent and accepted.
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