10 Feb 2025
There was the "fun," to begin with, of establishing one's successive centres--of fixing them so exactly that the portions of the subject commanded by them as by happy points of view, and accordingly treated from them, would constitute, so to speak, sufficiently solid BLOCKS of wrought material, squared to the sharp edge, as to have weight and mass and carrying power; to make for construction, that is, to conduce to effect and to provide for beauty.
---Henry James, preface to The Wings of the Dove
On the eve of my 19th birthday I decided that I'd fancy building a blog. That was how I first conceived of it. My next thought was that it could a sort of multi-media collage on the subject of contemporary American life. I sort of don't care about contemporary American life though, so then I thought it could be a kind of collage about my life---isn't that the only thing one can really write intelligently on? At that point, I remembered something someone once told me (or did I just imagine that?): writing a blog is a bit like keeping a diary just to leave it on your seat on the LIRR. I'm not quite that vainglorious. In essence, I'm not sure what this website is about, just that it's a project. . .
rhizomatic flâneur
(happy sleepy 11 Oct 2017)
(Viola Rouhani 12 Oct 2024)
. . .and hopefully an exploration of the wonderful connections between everyday things that are so easy to forget.
New articles will be directly attached to the home/welcome page (misut.net) so if you want to read what I've just written look there (click the orange bars). I'll also keep an updated index page organizing articles by my own kind of alphanumerical topic list if you want to explore something specific. Plus, check out the links page for some of my favorite websites, available from the index.