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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
