Cmon Kathleen, first Montaigne now Pessoa--get out of my head! ;)
(I don't go more than a few weeks without dipping into either the Essais or The Book of Disquiet)
"The best way of beginning to dream is through books. Novels are very useful for beginners. The first step: learn to surrender totally to your reading and live alongside the characters in a novel. It is a sign of progress to feel that your own family and its griefs are insignificant and repellent compared with those fictional characters." --Bernardo Soares
"Pessoa wrote in notebooks, on loose sheets, on the backs of letters, advertisements and handbills, on stationery from the firms he worked for and from the cafés he frequented, on envelopes, on paper scraps, and in the margins of his own earlier texts. To compound the confusion, he wrote under dozens of names, a practice – or compulsion – that began in his childhood. He called his most important personas ‘heteronyms’, endowing them with their own biographies, physiques, personalities, political views, religious attitudes, and literary pursuits."
😳🤨🤔🤓‼💯♻✌🏻🦸🏻♂️💓😜👻💨
elm
... it hadn't occurred to me that you give them *names* and legends ...
Cmon Kathleen, first Montaigne now Pessoa--get out of my head! ;)
(I don't go more than a few weeks without dipping into either the Essais or The Book of Disquiet)
"The best way of beginning to dream is through books. Novels are very useful for beginners. The first step: learn to surrender totally to your reading and live alongside the characters in a novel. It is a sign of progress to feel that your own family and its griefs are insignificant and repellent compared with those fictional characters." --Bernardo Soares
"Pessoa wrote in notebooks, on loose sheets, on the backs of letters, advertisements and handbills, on stationery from the firms he worked for and from the cafés he frequented, on envelopes, on paper scraps, and in the margins of his own earlier texts. To compound the confusion, he wrote under dozens of names, a practice – or compulsion – that began in his childhood. He called his most important personas ‘heteronyms’, endowing them with their own biographies, physiques, personalities, political views, religious attitudes, and literary pursuits."
😳🤨🤔🤓‼💯♻✌🏻🦸🏻♂️💓😜👻💨
elm
... it hadn't occurred to me that you give them *names* and legends ...