6/8_p3

fragments that spin off lines of thoughts often seemingly unrelated — perhaps related on some unconscious level — perhaps actually unrelated detritus of thought lines <that> were not followed etc

<? above lines>

lines of thought
lines of text
lines become pages

become text

(changing perspective of reading (mistake of reading for writing — the other way around — psychic “disturbance” — something to elaborate

<i>wrote ‘changing perspective of writing’ instead of ‘reading’ — crossed out and then made the same mistake in noting the mistake

the writers I have read and haven’t

Lawrence - Hemingway - Mann - Fitzgerald - Kafka

those I haven’t read and want to

Duras - Lessing

the concept of the spiral — Lawrence etc fade back into the center of the spiral — fading out (an opposite image from LSD — referred to somewhere elaborated somewhere perhaps —
perhaps reading and writing (thinking) can be viewed as opposing spirals one going inward and disappearing into tinier and tinier fragments of memory (different type for “fragments of memory” — which is a continuation of the above and also one of the literary fragments that stand alone — “punctuate” my text) (lost the sense of the bracket that opened this passage) — writing as a spiral coming from the inside spiraling outward into
(infinity)
words as punctuation
in line on previous page —“ perhaps reading and writing (thinking)” — possibility of using the format used in computer text to designate choices on the same level perhaps reading and {writing / thinking} can be

jun 1986
the center of the spiral
the inside
spiraling
outward
into
infinity
6/86-14

2/26/18 al stewart songs have been in my head


3/23/19 note the song