Cecil, your productivity leaves me gasping! With this particular project of writing the longest sentence (have you checked out Proust?) I'm both enticed and amused, because it's the exact opposite of my own current project, which is to get to the heart of a story in as few words as possible! I'd been doing this on Insta (with its 2200-character limit plus an image) for 5 years and found that the exercise consistently revealed surprising insights and buried memories. Why that is is not a mystery; I understand it from that substack I wrote with Barbara Schildkrout about writing and the brain. We paused that project after a year, feeling overwhelmed, precisely because we do not have your mega-productive capacity! And so I started Tiny Stories From Life, which I'm finding great fun. In any case, I just love the continuous kaleidoscopic-like simile-loops, as your sentence flows on. What a trip! Masterful and fascinating!
Talking about writing and the brain. A lot of people 'in the know' seem to think the brain creates consciousness. But I think consciousness (the mind) is completely seperate. What we see as brain activity, in my humble and uninformed opinion, is not the brain creating consciouness but rather the footprints of the consciousness using the physical body as an instrument of perception.
In fact I am going to write a couple of articles about that. watch for those in the next week.
Cecil, your productivity leaves me gasping! With this particular project of writing the longest sentence (have you checked out Proust?) I'm both enticed and amused, because it's the exact opposite of my own current project, which is to get to the heart of a story in as few words as possible! I'd been doing this on Insta (with its 2200-character limit plus an image) for 5 years and found that the exercise consistently revealed surprising insights and buried memories. Why that is is not a mystery; I understand it from that substack I wrote with Barbara Schildkrout about writing and the brain. We paused that project after a year, feeling overwhelmed, precisely because we do not have your mega-productive capacity! And so I started Tiny Stories From Life, which I'm finding great fun. In any case, I just love the continuous kaleidoscopic-like simile-loops, as your sentence flows on. What a trip! Masterful and fascinating!
Talking about writing and the brain. A lot of people 'in the know' seem to think the brain creates consciousness. But I think consciousness (the mind) is completely seperate. What we see as brain activity, in my humble and uninformed opinion, is not the brain creating consciouness but rather the footprints of the consciousness using the physical body as an instrument of perception.
In fact I am going to write a couple of articles about that. watch for those in the next week.
Regarding your work with sentence structure, Fascinating work Cecil. I am reminded of László Krasznahorkai and even Molly Blooms soliloquy in Ulysses.
Thanks Peter!
Well done, Cecil, what a writing feat!
Thanks Portia!