Saturday, March 3, 2012

parallel structure

Sometimes, that list, the one that you envision will efficiently carry the laundry-list of relevant literary, theological, diegetical data with the mechanical efficiency of a German-made car, somehow at the end bursts the seams, and all together pours itself into a whole other sentence without permission.

I have finished and started two portraits of George MacDonald today in an effort to not write this paper, and also started blogging about the process of writing the paper, have watched an episode of Modern Family, and half-heartedly done a handful of other piddly tasks. But now i've gotten to 14,325, when I started at 13,746, and I've only got another 400+ to go.

I start at the end and work my way to the beginning. It's a trend, but is also indicative of how I engage with reality - and that is to see the thing I want to get to first, and then find a way to get to the beginning so I can get to the end. Deductive sentences. The first Mac portrait was him as an old man, the current one is him at about 45. Well, I wasn't sure about what that meant, but now I have a clue. Thank-you words on paper - or whatever - for teaching me something from my brain about my brain.

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