ELLIPSIS

Beirut 1

“19-07-11 Met M and we went to a bookshop, she said she had a writers block and it meant that she kept buying notebooks as a symptom of her inability to write. She is pregnant with her second child and motherhood and life is very present. She is a clever and beautiful person who should be writing. Not only for the poetry I think her writings contain, but also for the viewpoints – they simply have to be out there, circulating. Well, her crisis resonated with my situation, the confusion of fragments, where she’s more lucky than I am, since she has all notebooks in one box. I have notebooks and text fragments at least in 5 places; Elbagade, Viollier, Vesterbrogade, my old laptop and the new one – perhaps also in the PhD-laptop and in the archive.

With someone like M I feel that I resonate. We have never talked much and I’ve never seen her writings, but her presence tells me something. It has been almost 4 years since I got to know her and since, we’ve met 3 or 4 times, always when I was in Beirut. She has been reading my blog and asked if I were still writing, because she enjoyed it. One day we should just exist and write, be in the world and write.

The notebook format requires more reflection before writing than the laptop text format.

Today M travels to Jordan for a week, she says she writes well in foreign countries. I wish that for her.”

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

2 Comments so far
Leave a comment