Thursday, October 20, 2022

These new writerly writers

It is near midnight on October 20, 2022.  Taylor Swift's Midnights is dropping soon, at midnight.  And those who have walked though the masses lately, know that the bleakness of writer's trances is starting to haunt our every waking moment.  We should take a moment to romance and explain these new "writerly writers".  First of all, what is this spell but a way of explaining the Architect, in one of the forms that he takes?  And even, she, takes?  This is the form that he takes, at a very young age, to let his work connect him to the world.  He is that kid that played a lot with Legos.  He is darling to empiricists.  Much respect is deserved to Taylor Swift for explaining his story to them.  But he would bring work before them to be judged.  His social contract with society was an has always been, "you may not define me but you may assign and judge my work."  So whence comes this bleakness?  From the work in and of itself.  It's a bleak good humor that animates writers' works, but trust in the eternal truth that the bleakness is what evaporates, not the good humor, when subjected to society's good graces. 

(This is how the other one, the one whose social contract is the one of the empiricist himself who says "you can define me socially but you may not control what I do," who has made this diagnosis, Architect to Architect.)


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