Thursday, July 17, 2008

'The Sane Man is Nowhere' approach

Here’s my solution to the problem of documenting my exploration of ‘the meaning of life’ for the want of a better term.

If I proceed in the same manner of writing ‘The Sane Man is Nowhere’, then that ought to work, it seems to me. What I do is write freely, on topics that come to mind at random, possibly saving these as posts on the blog ‘Will? I am!’ and certainly printing these out and whipping them into a file. In terms of blogging—only if I can crank out and splash down what surfaces without feeling inhibited.

I won’t have to worry about an overall structure; that may come later—just as for TSMIN—whenever I shuffle papers about. I can add to each thought stream, or edit, just as I wish. I’ll simply just update the post and/or paper copy. I could even bundle posts on a them, and give each a code to see how they might link . . . but that’s as maybe.

I can easily go over everything I have now. It all ‘fits’. Just pile everything on. Repetition. Back-tracking. About facing. (Perhaps it’s a good thing to date what I write.)

As for the ‘Magnum Opus’—well, I can maintain that in its present form too. I can use the ideas from WIA to flesh that out wherever it develops. No problem, as far as I can see.