Some experience in literature reveals the unpleasant truth that the most productive periods, the most fruitful inspirations, occur always and exactly during periods of greatest inner tension. The best art is made when the mind is in turmoil, often on the verge of collapse. Themes emerge, words appear and, above all, one cannot stand the imperative need to write. What a thing!
Category: Notes
What Is Most Discouraging…
What is most discouraging is to see that, in the end, the dream of stability is vain… There will always be a day when, for unknown reasons, the world dawns sour, disruptive, unpleasant, and then effort, progress and reason will be questioned. And the conclusion will always be the same, that there is only full stability in what does not move, that life is antagonistic to peace…
To Specialize in Everyday Life…
To specialize in everyday life is to specialize in having an immediate opinion about everything, either ill-formed or poorly meditated on. In a very short time, the brain gets used to the poverty of criteria and even convinces itself that meditation is unnecessary, because it cannot add anything. Of course, often one has an accurate intuition of the facts, an intuition that no amount of meditation can replace. But when it comes to everyday life, what is presented as a “fact” is almost always a falsification of a fact or, at most, the fact itself unrecognizable because covered by a deceitful package designed to misrepresent it. As such, and as it is often tedious and difficult to remove the wrapping, the best thing to do, unless a sense of duty manifests itself, is to let it go.
Observing This Phenomenon of Assumption…
Observing this phenomenon of assumption, or crystallization of the personality over and over again, one notices some very curious cases in which it happens outside the usual time, already in maturity, sometimes on the verge of old age. For some reason, if not because of a traumatic effect, it seems that the masks suddenly fall off, suddenly become unnecessary, and the effect is quite curious because an abrupt behavioral change takes place in an adult who is already made, already recognized as such. And then, saint or monster, this version seems to be the only true one; it is certainly the definitive one.