Yes. Affects the body. More and more I feel that this is where writers best contribute by writing toward and where readers best contribute by reading toward.
There is an Ursula Le Guin quote that's been banging around my head lately: "The end justifies the means. But what if there is no end? All we have is means." In a sense, the ritual means is the thing.
Thank you both! Yes I hope so. I'd like to put it together with the previous No Debts No Masters series, and also a third series I haven't written yet. See how we go...
Really good series. I don’t remember if you discussed this in previous parts, but it seems important that both the ritual of immersion and the ritual of the meal involve an engagement with death (and then new or energized life).
This writing changes things in my body, David. Bypasses my grasping mind. In Dougald's recent language, this longs to become heavy on the page.
Thanks Adam. Finding our way back to the creature..
Yes. Affects the body. More and more I feel that this is where writers best contribute by writing toward and where readers best contribute by reading toward.
I’ve loved this series. In ways I don’t quite have words for yet.
Me too!
Thank you both 🙏🏻
There is an Ursula Le Guin quote that's been banging around my head lately: "The end justifies the means. But what if there is no end? All we have is means." In a sense, the ritual means is the thing.
I've never heard this. Super resonant.
Lordy. Please tell me this series will be realized in printed form!
Thank you both! Yes I hope so. I'd like to put it together with the previous No Debts No Masters series, and also a third series I haven't written yet. See how we go...
Seconded. I want to put it through everyone's letterboxes
Echoing all the above, but above all thank you for giving voice to "entering through exiting.” I’ll be definitely be re-reading this series…
My pleasure Mark. Thank you for reading.
Really good series. I don’t remember if you discussed this in previous parts, but it seems important that both the ritual of immersion and the ritual of the meal involve an engagement with death (and then new or energized life).
Oh yes, very much so. See previous posts, Death Ritual... Alexaminos... The Public Spectacle..