Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ― Guy de Maupassant
The Notebook – by Marcus D. Niski
Decay
Ruins
Detritus
The Mundane
The Moment
Ennui
Boredom
The Obvious
The Un-Noticed
The Notebook
[MN] 24 August 2018
Georges Perec – On Knowing the World
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
common people — .documenting.the.obvious
barcelona, 2018 william shatner – common people (click,hear)
William S. Burroughs – On The Third Mind
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
Francis Bacon
Nearly all reality is pain.
– From an Interview with Melwyn Bragg for The South Bank Show.
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks 2015]
William S. Burroughs – On Writing
No trouble, no story, no book, no film, no painting …
Francis Bacon
Chaos for me breeds images.
– From an Interview with Melwyn Bragg for The South Bank Show.
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks 2015]
Susan Sontag – On Writing
I will write in the notebook every day. [Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books]
– Susan Sontag in, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks from 2015]
E.B White – On Writing
A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
Naked Cities Journal 
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