Week 7. Thoughts prompted from reading Lauren’s post on the lecture.
A brief post. Summarises the lecture – apparently about the literary value of lists compared with that of narrative.
There are some really fascinating points in this (I was unable to attend the lecture).
There’s one particular idea that resonates with me in this post. That’s the idea that lists “can reveal thought patterns more tellingly than a narrative”. Quick ways of getting points across. List are the “quick work of the immediate brain”.
I really, really, really like this idea.
The immediate brain. There’s something beautiful about the randomness of thinking. The strange ways our brains work. It’s utterly fascinating to me. This, as well as the idea of fragmented writing (I love fragmented writing), makes me really interested in lists as a literary approach. It’s like poetry. But less cheesy. However, there still seems to be a linear structure to lists. Because, well, there’s an order. You read them in a predetermined order. Order doesn’t reflect the way we think at all. I’d like to think that there’s a literary design that reflects the way we think. That reflects a neural network. I suppose that’s kind of like the Internet… isn’t it? But that’s too broad. I want something more concrete. I suppose Korsakow is kind of like that. But I mean for writing only. And something more user-friendly than Korsakow. Korsakow is slow and hard to navigate. Cool idea, Korsakow, but it’s only in its beginning phase. There’s gotta be a writing program that is structured somewhat like a neural network. Or just a network. Forget the impulses. Just a network, then.
Personally, my brain can never focus these days. I learn so much about the world when there’s an assignment due because I am an amazing procrastinator. Seriously. The countless articles I read, the countless videos I watch (one recent video about geology and the world ending :O ), the things I search for and expose myself to, the knowledge I find. The inspiration I find. Just the other day, I learnt another way to multiply numbers by drawing criss-crosses. I learn so much about the world by avoiding assignments. And I find so much inspiration. So, thank you, assignments.