One of those flawless blue winter days. Bright cold light and not a cloud in the sky.
I, however, am not.
OPERATIONS: Today is for new things and thinking.
READING: BARTHES (A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION) (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: New Music Show
LAST WATCHED: rewatched CRANK while thinking
THINKING ABOUT: (from the Barthes book)
Apparently gratuitous descriptive details, for instance, by their ‘failure to relate to any of the codes advancing the plot, revealing character, contributing to suspense, or generating symbolic meaning, produce a ‘reality effect’: by their very resistance to meaning they signify, ‘this is the real.’
I found it interesting that someone codified the part of novel writing that I think of as “writing.”
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