avatarThe Doctor - Joanie Adams

Summary

The text is a contemplative essay discussing the art of writing, the refinement of prose, and the struggle to convey truth through style, while acknowledging the inherent biases and limitations of language and the writer's own persona.

Abstract

The author reflects on the delicate balance between style and substance in writing, emphasizing the need for constant refinement and the confrontation with the 'inking pain' of articulating thoughts. The essay, identified as "Morning Papers XXVI," delves into the writer's personal journey of crafting prose that is both beguiling and understandable, while grappling with the lies and truths inherent in the act of writing. Through a series of metaphors and introspective musings, the author ponders the implications of their words on the reader and the world, revealing a self-awareness of their own selfishness as a writer and the pursuit of a pure, logical approach to expression, free from the immediate gratification sought by others. The text concludes with an invitation to join the author's newsletter and a nod to previous and ongoing works.

Opinions

  • The author views writing as an ever-evolving process that requires continuous refinement.
  • There is a critique of the quick pursuit of comfort and justification in the reader's and writer's worlds.
  • The writer acknowledges the danger of cold logic without empathy or understanding, yet strives for a balance between rationality and emotion.
  • The text suggests that writing is a confrontation with one's own thoughts and the chaos of the world, seeking to find meaning amidst disorder.
  • The author expresses a sense of humility and the recognition that their words may be interpreted in various ways by readers, highlighting the importance of careful word choice.
  • There is a self-admission of being a 'selfish writer,' implying a dedication to personal standards and the craft of writing over immediate reader satisfaction.
  • The essay conveys a disdain for the superficial rehashing of old ideas, advocating instead for the creation of work that resonates in the present context.
  • The writer takes on the role of a 'Doctor,' guiding readers through the complexities of language and thought, while also getting lost in their own reflections.
  • The text expresses a reluctance to say goodbye, indicating a deep connection between the author and their work, as well as between the writer and the reader.

Of Style Overplayed

A Refinement In Prose; A Confrontation Of The Inking Pain — Morning Papers XXVI

Where To Place Style; Where To Beguile; Where To Refine; Where To Be Purely Understood — What is the Lie and What Could be True?

Anders Zorn - Sommarnöje

©Joanie Adams — Joanie Adams; Gift A Tea: https://ko-fi.com/joanieadamms

THE LAST PAPER:

Throughout The Blunders Of The Day, The Resettling Act Of Writing Comes Back — Ever-refining, Ever-steering, I come back to that!

Small, blue portrait, bouncing in its finely rippling sea; there she is on the wharf, as he closes in, and there you all are, staring, ogling from the far shore, hoping to peep an unforgettable scene. I am being facetious with the wading hope that begins us to the tale, merely to be Inked down by the prescribing scribe.

I may not speak the words of all, yet, untangle my way of conveyance and therein you may reveal the ideas that make life brimming with richness, with the effort traded in with your time, to make worthwhile for you; I know it can be, it was for me, in an oh-so-passed plain, in the slender scope of time.

So there I am, scuffing out the rough misshapen path, fondled by the havoc of upsetting tides and gales severe that turn all muddled shapes into the desire of breasts.

You cannot be roused anywhere else without the setting image of Mother following you around — but I may be smirking at you by this point.

I often wonder about you, and what you’re thinking about, what is entailing the need of your mind as of now — of all this imagery, do I hear you calling out Why?

I can become subtle, I can become sly, I am shrewd and I dare to understand the implications of my words, by the seeking eyes of all — I fortunately see the world as it is, away from the usual demand for self-happiness — to an extent of course.

O; there is such a danger of meeting a being of utterly cold and purely brilliant Logic —logic being the curse word thrown around by those who need quick and tolerable justifications of their Eagerness.

Quick comforts that is quickly sought for, and doubly quick, they are used up, barring this particular self to this consumption, like the malady that turns the body to a playfully bright hue just before death; I am a selfish writer, and a selfish person, I have always been and why I have so many rules, so many reasons for temperance, I’ve never been too awfully tried to pick a tempting side — or blindsiding as I prefer to know of it.

The pedantic tiss of getting the right curving knife, you see, I’ve got you hooked with all these muddled thoughts; Now, to revise and say what is needed by cares to be said. Ideas, ah yes, shall we be to that, because as we share this moment, I am conjuring up a Refinement of a past song, sad old-timey America —those wide labrador wet eyes, huddled into old New Haarlem; With that spoken of, I most likely have refined these ideas even more. I have, I’m toying you with the sometimes disregarding chides of rhetoric.

I come back on my words, my Never Publish First Drafts comes to jaunt me with the tactfully whipping finger under the right ear: A Refinement In Prose. After many ruminations, today harks the need for a new mensing age after the previous ones; what has once gone before won’t necessarily work today in verbatim. So may we begin, where?

Where To Place Style; Where To Beguile; Where To Refine; Where To Be Purely Understood — What is the Lie and What Could be True?

The cursing trope of enviable ideas to be had all of the time, never just some of the time, or a reason now to be heard and at another to be silent — the humility, in a wide and grand scheme may not so exist, are we just this mere, fickle thing, without any might for loyalties; and I mean loyalties not fervent loyalists, be careful how you press your words, the insurance of insinuations by others, of putting their happy-concluding meanings into your words, especially depending on your position, is an ace to be encountered—

Trouble arises, even in the most peacefully instructed places, there are things, beings of utter chaos there, like a rogue atom that’ll shake things around, just as long there isn’t a stable catalytic being in control of them, then all meaning dares to become lost.

I steer and I harper, I need to confront, otherwise I cannot understand what it is in need within myself, let allow to even have the possibility of understanding it in another; life doesn’t coil around one main terminal, I am a mere form to the larger Machinations of this wide market —take that image, thick, rich and deeply saturated in the desires of every stall-owner and trader who floats in and out of this space of life only to return.

But there I be the Doctor, as I shall always be, admittedly, getting lost in what I intended in the title which I spouted on some spot, a month or two ago —must be, perhaps I was leaning against my console, flipping up the phone as it becomes the desirable fashion, again, today; Oh, you do love to bring back the dated classics don’t you.

A rotatory phone, in British racing green, with a big friendly button in the middle that says: Sentimental tech, get rid! But I am delaying, as I hate a goodbye. Yet I close now. There, I am going.

Ta-ta Now, that is all —for now.

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Katharine Hepburn — Woman of the Year

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