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.

Literary sensibility can be like the silence of a psychoanalyst who is yet unknown to be an analyst, which otherwise easily causes another person to clam up, as if the analyst doesn’t value—and genuinely live—
an ordinary life.

Or a priest yet unknown to be that; a professor who doesn’t flaunt it in conversation.

“What are they hiding?”

Just being with “you” mutually can seem duplicitous.

But really: Parents are always more than their parenting: teachers, more than their teaching; scientists, more than their profession; artists, more than their presence.

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