9/9 p2

the possibility of setting the book horizontally to make a page that more meets my spatial sense — but I’ve never written that way so I’d have to try it
lines such as the above that have no sense of delineation (as I write them) but could line break at any point — the sentence or unit of discourse
lines that attempt to convey a meaning — what often happens as I write is that such lines start to take on spatial arrangements and the ‘meaning’ gets lost — (put the passage through different arrangements) — (the desire to get rid of punctuation except the parenthesis but ((my tendency to use the dash)) — the inverted commas may be useful)

the idea of the essay or short text — all of my texts are short — and thus should lend themselves to the essay but I have a hard time divorcing myself from the entire context of my writing — I have a hard time thinking in terms of a short unified piece that could be inserted into a magazine

<12/17/89
relates to insertions in notes 23 and arttext>

p187-188 — she glosses every word of the sonnet — “attention is shifted from the author to reader” — I am a graphireader of my own text —
the use of line drawings with words carried out over time
start with a page — mark it off into squares or sections and gradually remove shift change etc — words — which would lead to different spatial layouts

Port of Adventure — port folios — porte —
to carry the book
to carry the book as a pregnancy —
to summarize — where am I now — what has been written
these pages I keep writing — books within books — can it be carried out —
to attempt to summarize leads to the entire book