Notebook
We drew our heavy revolvers (suddenly in the dream there were revolvers) and exultantly killed the gods.Ragnarök, Jorge Luis Borges
First there are two kinds of writers: those who write for the sake of the subject and those who write for the sake of writing.
On Writing and Style, Schopenhauer
A commonplace book.
Nothing here is finished, everything is a draft.
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