Quote of the day 10.30

From "The Blind Assassin," by Margaret Atwood:

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Impossible, of course.

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[John Stanforth]

You might also consider my alternate approach: Unwavering faith in my sheer incompetence. I've typed journal entries into one program or another for ~15 years now, only to lose the hard drives, lose the backups, or lose the software (WordPerfect for DOS?). If all else fails, my own procrastination probably ensures I'd never get around to ever reading it later anyway. ;)