If not necessary, it is at least healthy for the writer to periodically vary the style, format and genre to which he shapes his ideas. This is the case for countless reasons, starting with how stimulating it is to do so, and also with the gradual awareness of the expressive possibilities that are never exhausted. More than that: in this exercise, one discovers that there are more suitable places for ideas and ideas, and one avoids having to mix them all up—because they will certainly come varied in the creative mind—in a single format. The best thing, then, is to vary like Voltaire; and it is good for the writer to keep this in mind if he does not do it spontaneously.
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Thre Green
It is quite funny how unpleasant feelings green can arouse. The lucky thing is that, more often than not, it does not predominate over other colors in the field of vision. But put a poor fellow in an environment where he is surrounded by it and attacked by it, and he will soon despair. We tolerate exposure to green like we tolerate an insect: we want it to disappear so that we do not have to act.
When a Draft Is Lost…
When a draft is lost, but what was sketched persists in the memory, something interesting happens. We realize that it is possible to restore the draft by going back through the same stages of reasoning that led to it; but it is not possible to restore it word for word, exactly as it was. It can be seen, then, that something is lost in the process. It follows that we can say the same thing day after day, renewing it by the way we say it; however, the uniqueness of the moment in which it was said remains ingrained in it and, finally, the lost draft is really the moment that is gone…
True Artists and True Philosophers…
True artists and true philosophers have in common that their work is the result of reflection on experience. From this, in both, springs the need for expression which, in each, is realized differently. In other words: it is through reflection that they discover what to say, and afterwards that they experience the sensation of having to say it. The rest is how to do it – the least important thing. But this initial impulse that unites them attests to the truth of what they do and sets them apart from all those who, for the most diverse reasons, perpetuate falsification.