Re: two rats

--- Will Hochman <hochmanw1@southernct.edu> wrote:
>
> I don't know about that metaphor Cecilia...I like to think that when
> I publish something, I have found a home for stuff so that it will
> leave me alone and let me get onto other stuff...

Well, this I understand. It's not easy to get something to leave you
alone, and publishing is one way to do it. (But even then, sometimes
not.)

> in other words, I
> don't connect what people see in the writing to what they may see of
> my underwear and self when I publish...it's not me, it's just my
> words, and publishing let's me get to a place where I can imagine I'm
> done with those particular words. But actually you are right...words
> haunt writers no matter what! will

I'd argue that my words are me, for I've expended so much effort in making
them sing on the page. When you put so much self into something, it's not
easy to dismiss it as "not you."

Or not me.

Regards,
Cecilia.

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Received on Sun Sep 1 14:29:47 2002