You are really good. I liked the one "A wave is not water but energy running through it." But unfortunately I don't understand many of your notes :-(
For e.g. "His car drove through each raindrop". What does it mean? Or "His tongue slid over slightly gritty film on his teeth". Or "Purplish clouds, ringed with gold, beneath a fingernail moon in the just-blue sky". Or "Salt and pepper scattered randomly on a saucer". What's the idea behind it all? Can you explain for my sake?
Thanks for the kind words, but as to the "meaning" of these footnotes . . . don't look too hard. Usually, the "meaning" is not as bald as with the wave footnote.
Most footnotes are about focusing on the world, about seeing the surprise of the quotidian, about looking at the everyday world and finding an interesting way to view it, about touching off a few bursts between peoples' synapses.
I don't claim to have succeeded in doing this, but that's my goal.
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Hi Geof,
You are really good. I liked the one "A wave is not water but energy running through it." But unfortunately I don't understand many of your notes :-(
For e.g. "His car drove through each raindrop". What does it mean? Or "His tongue slid over slightly gritty film on his teeth". Or "Purplish clouds, ringed with gold, beneath a fingernail moon in the just-blue sky". Or "Salt and pepper scattered randomly on a saucer". What's the idea behind it all? Can you explain for my sake?
Thank you.
- Jayprakash
Jayprakash,
Thanks for the kind words, but as to the "meaning" of these footnotes . . . don't look too hard. Usually, the "meaning" is not as bald as with the wave footnote.
Most footnotes are about focusing on the world, about seeing the surprise of the quotidian, about looking at the everyday world and finding an interesting way to view it, about touching off a few bursts between peoples' synapses.
I don't claim to have succeeded in doing this, but that's my goal.
Geof
Sherri,
Glad you see these sentences this way. Who am I? Just the person writing these things. My blogs say too much about me for me to add any more.
Thanks for your interest.
Geof
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