I start this new day indoors with a warming fire, dog in the vicinity of my feet. Outside it rains hard. I look at my planet from the safety of my window and marvel. How the brown earth is a skin with the color green bursting from every pore with haze sweating off the surface of the pond, how tears flood the gulley, how the lilacs have been and are now gone without protest, how the swallows investigate the eves of my house as further nests, and how I wish they would accept my invitation to stay.<\/p>\n
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This is from Rusdie in the New Yorker. I\u2019ve always disliked him, but this version of \u201cwhy we write\u201d reminds us of possibillities beyond ego and mood.<\/p>\n
“In Germany, after the Second World War, the authors of what was called\u00a0Tr\u00fcmmerliteratur<\/em>, or \u201crubble literature,\u201d felt the need to rebuild their language, poisoned by Nazism, as well as their country, which lay in ruins. They understood that reality, truth, needed to be reconstructed from the ground up, with new language, just as the bombed cities needed to be rebuilt. I think we can learn from their example. We stand once again, though for different reasons, in the midst of the rubble of the truth. And it is for us\u2014writers, thinkers, journalists, philosophers\u2014to undertake the task of rebuilding our readers\u2019 belief in reality, their faith in the truth. And to do it with new language, from the ground up.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I start this new day indoors with a warming fire, dog in the vicinity of my feet. Outside it rains hard. I look at my planet from the safety of my window and marvel. How the brown earth is a skin with the color green bursting from every pore with haze sweating off the surface … <\/p>\n
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