- I'm reading the next chapter in John Gardner's The Art of Fiction to get me started writing again.
- I was depressed earlier in the week, but I'm okay now:
- due in no small part to reading the aforementioned chapter
- which so far talks about how writing needs to come to life
- which the same thing that I need to keep from getting depressed
- and just thinking about how to make my writing come to life, makes me come back to life
- which is awesome.
- I google Gilles Deleuze —a philosopher that I'm attracted to, but don't fully understand.
- I find an article that I can reasonably comprehend, and basically I get this:
- he is against the notion of a dual plane of existence, divided between the immanent and the transcendent
- because notions of transcendence give rise to notions of morality, where Good and Evil have been determined by something "out there"
- which diminishes one's own involvement in life
- which makes one feel not so alive
- instead he is for the notion of a "plane of immanence" where everything is right here
- which gives rise to notions of ethicality, where good and bad are decided within any given situation
- which is involving, among other things
- and connects you more directly to the experience of being alive!
- So basically Gardner and Deleuze are talking about the same thing at the moment:
- and it's just the thing that I need to get my writing started
- and also to get me out of being depressed
- which is awesome.
- Oh and, I quoted Buffy. Because I am a geek.
