‘Why does the day need the blog? Why does it need this mediation, this detour, on its return to itself?’ – ‘Because it can only approach itself through detour; because that detour is the whole world, and everything in it as you retell it. Write of the world – tell everything as it happens, the most extraordinary, the most banal, and you will indicate this detour, without naming it.’
– ‘Then it is something more than a detour, or it seems to hold itself back from the events of the world.’ – ‘It is held back, and held back, too, from the recounting of the world, its telling.’ – ‘Then how to approach it? How to stand facing it, as I face the sun at noon?’ – ‘All telling is indirection, like the magician who tricks you by distracting your attention. You will not face it. There is no sun. The day is not itself, it is only the approach to itself, and you, blogger, are the means of that approach.’
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