The Web Is…

Read/write

Except that it isn’t.

To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs. — Georges Perec

Georges Perec “Tentative de description d’un programme de travail pour les années à venir”

When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort. — Sally Kerrigan

Write about obscure things but don’t write obscurely. — W G Sebald

Get off the main thoroughfares; you’ll see nothing there. — W G Sebald

Sir Thomas Browne Musæum Clausum, or Biblioteca Abscondita; and The Garden of Cyrus

W G Sebald Die Ringe des Saturn

Writing is about discovering things hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no point to the process. — W G Sebald

Frank Chimero “What Screens Want”

Wilson Miner “When We Build”

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment. — W G Sebald

Words are innocent. By using them without imagination, it’s us who make them hateful. — Umberto Eco

Learn to recognize the approach of an ending, and when one appears, grab it. — Paul Graham

Thank you