June 25, 2020
Tomorrow, I finally submit to Brick.
Reading Thanh’s memoir discomfits me. It reads like one version of what I have written.
How should I now define my relationship with J? I met him during my new-age days. I would talk for hours about what I had learned – meditation, breathing, peace, ego, truth. The difference in years between us more meaningful than today when I took a different path and he committed to Buddhism. Will this happen to my relationship with P.? A gratified ego? My mouth and a new wisdom?
Interview: Line of questioning:
- an interrupted bildungsroman?
- writing as healing; healing as writing (The writer is the Healed person).
- 200 – “The new material was old material filtered though the person I was trying to become.”
Books to read:
Abigail Thomas: Safekeeping
Abigail Thomas: (essay) Getting Started
Joan Wickersham: The Suicide Index
Vivian Gornick: The Situation and the Story
Leonora Carrington: Down Below
Wendy Ortiz: Bruja
Deboray Levy: Things I don’t want to know
Deboary Levy: The Cost of Living
Javier Marias: Dark Back of Time
