it's another rainy day... i proceed through my routines, as usual. i think if nothing else i am cultivating a kind of stubbornness. another way of putting it is that i am building momentum. eventually, i will be so heavy and set upon proceeding on to the next thing and the next thing that i will be a juggernaut. maybe, in the process, i will destroy everything before me, instead of enjoying it or having it change me or open me up somehow... but alas, what alternatives?
i'm looking into biochar. the reason is because i have so much wood in my backyard. my huge project is to clear the trees that currently dominate the backyard. by big trees, i mean they are huge. they are ficuses, and if you know these trees, you understand why they can be so problematic. i mean, they grow nice foliage and everything... that's not the problem. or perhaps it is. they grow too well. they "blossom" nicely, to the point that they fill all space, and sent branches up and out. currently, there are branches that could reach the house if i don't trim them back...
so in any case, i have a problem with too much wood. and i need to dispose of it. but i also want to do so in an environmentally beneficial way... hence the perusal of biochar as an option. i'm also looking into something cheap. because i am not willing to break the bank to do this sort of thing. there are ways to do it for next to nothing. it's probably not the most efficient way to do it... like i might produce some potash in the process... but all in all, i think digging some sort of pit and doing some sort of slow burn of the wood would probably be the best thing to do.
anyway.
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i am listening to salman rushdie for the masterclass series. i appreciate his candidness. i understand (as with the previous author) that there is a lot of "mucking around" to figure out what you are doing when you write. as he says, the ultimate truth is whatever works. in terms of technique, i appreciate his idea of using "mirroring" or "echoes." i never knew it had a name, but i think that that's what i aspire to do in my writing... provide several conversations or situations that "mirror" or "echo" each other, definitely not in precisely the same way (because identical situations are merely repetitions that do not inform the audience in any way), but in ways that offer opportunities to see the same thing from different perspectives... but, in all, allow the reader to "glimpse the big picture." i think, of all haruki murakami's works, the best one in my experience was the first one i read: hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world... the reason i felt this novel was most successful was because it had a split narrative (actually representing the process in the protagonist's brain), with completely different settings, etc. yet as these two narratives occurred within the same individual, there were "ghost echoes," or little images that passed between the two like a ping pong ball... and that somewhat informed or hinted at the whole that was hopelessly fractured... i would like to write something like that...
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i get flashes of ideas on how to proceed with my never-ending story. one idea i recently had was to do a "bait and switch," to put in a dummy protagonist into the copper bowl to allow the real protagonist to be spared from the acts demanded of him... and to allow him to see or watch the process without fearing its consequences... not sure how that would work, but at least it would make the plot interesting... and it would make the character yagoro more consistent, in that he actually acted out on his merciful leanings...
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anyway, nothing much else to report. gray day. gray night.
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