Trail mind, like Trail mix. Mmm Good
Hello hello. I have come once again to expand your mind to know again things that you already know. Once again, this involves trying to follow my thought process, which doesn't always make sense. Or translate into words. Are you ready?
So the other night I came home, and my sister was doing some homework on the compy. So I bugged her for a minute or two, and then decided I could go catch up on some reading. Five minutes later, I decided that was a bad idea. So I lay there, and start wondering wonders...
Like what are book really made of? Sure, there are paragraphs and chapters and sentences, but those don't make a book. They make, maybe say, a house. Now, what do you put in there to make it a home? What are the building blocks for making a book? They aren't sentences, because those are built. I think it even transcends words. I thought that maybe books were to be built around ideas, or maybe a collaboration of ideas.
This may seem blatantly obvious to you, but for me, the only reason I ever had to write a book was to have a book written and handed in and marked so the teachers wouldn't bug me. The book was never really about anything. I didn't have to think about how books are made. Not that I have to now. Unless I can write a book or two, call it a job, and carry on being lazy. It really isn't that great a trait. Speaking of greatness...
My thought of books having purpose, I gathered books I read had purpose, but book projects I wrote didn't, led me to wonder why good books were good, and bad books bad. What makes great things great? You could be viewed as evil, yet still be great. Greatness is somewhat based on success when it comes to looking at it in people, but all who are successful are not great. But, is greatness even based on success at all? Can you not be successful and still great?
And, back to the inanimate context, what makes things great? Why is great literature great? I wouldn't say I am well versed enough in these types of writing to have any insight at all, but I don't think I would mind following that quest...
So the other night I came home, and my sister was doing some homework on the compy. So I bugged her for a minute or two, and then decided I could go catch up on some reading. Five minutes later, I decided that was a bad idea. So I lay there, and start wondering wonders...
Like what are book really made of? Sure, there are paragraphs and chapters and sentences, but those don't make a book. They make, maybe say, a house. Now, what do you put in there to make it a home? What are the building blocks for making a book? They aren't sentences, because those are built. I think it even transcends words. I thought that maybe books were to be built around ideas, or maybe a collaboration of ideas.
This may seem blatantly obvious to you, but for me, the only reason I ever had to write a book was to have a book written and handed in and marked so the teachers wouldn't bug me. The book was never really about anything. I didn't have to think about how books are made. Not that I have to now. Unless I can write a book or two, call it a job, and carry on being lazy. It really isn't that great a trait. Speaking of greatness...
My thought of books having purpose, I gathered books I read had purpose, but book projects I wrote didn't, led me to wonder why good books were good, and bad books bad. What makes great things great? You could be viewed as evil, yet still be great. Greatness is somewhat based on success when it comes to looking at it in people, but all who are successful are not great. But, is greatness even based on success at all? Can you not be successful and still great?
And, back to the inanimate context, what makes things great? Why is great literature great? I wouldn't say I am well versed enough in these types of writing to have any insight at all, but I don't think I would mind following that quest...
posted by AfterVerner at 11:56 p.m.
4 Comments:
Good Questions! I've been asking myself what success means. Same kind of thing. No good answers yet, only thoughts.
I enjoy your writing bro!
wow so my entire previous comment was deleted.... But basicly i dont read much, and i think i might try reading tonight some. I'll tell if its great or not.
make your blog into a book and then it will be successful and people will wright books about it and what it's overall point was even if there was none (not saying, however, that theres not).
Nice Werner.
Lindsay
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