authorship of authoriality

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Self-differentiation through writing as speech;

self-withholding in writing for an audience through an appropriate degree of candor, etc.;

receptiveness as “reading” another person;

writing the auther of a silent text: Is it perceiving, creating, projecting?

Is the inferred author (the authorship) some weird mirror of one’s capability, preference, self-begetting?—

All of that is happening in non-“literary” life.

experiencing ordinary days as almost literary

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Today’s discussion begins a series on literary venturing.

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winter 2026

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Musing about literary sensibility is next. Where that’ll go
I do not know.

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intelligent design

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Rationality should be understood relative to life-orienting Purposes
of flourishing, rather than relative to near-term goals which are means for bettering the quality of one’s life.

resorts of higher souls

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I suppose many researchers and artists feel as if the soul of their genius destined them to find high resort away from tyranny.

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gardening aspiration

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“Of philological gardening” recalls themes from autumn postings
(after a hermetic preface) as practical rationale for aspirational venturing through winter’s want of spring.

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