(An experiment: how willl it change my writing if I blog from the subway for half an hour each day on my way home?)
The cliche "Honesty is the best policy" relies on an older meaning of the word "policy": cunning manipulation, trickery, and statescraft. It means only that telling the truth is often the best way of manipulating people to act against their interests.
'sprobably true. But that makes me less sure that my sometime bluntness isn't more often bad for the people I'm being blunt to than it is good.
(Writing on this thing makes it much harder for me to take a second pass at sentences, so I take on this fatuous, sophomoric tone.)
/Herzog/ is amazing. Bellow writes these short, tight sentences that let him get away with practically anything. I had to throw away my copy of the book--I ripped the cover off carrying it around--but I want to buy another and study how he does things. Man.
I'm a little disturbed by all the electronics I'm carrying around. I'm practically a cyborg.
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