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Thanks for all the comments!
I think I need a balance between aloneness to write, knowing that I am read by others, and also all the interesting interactions that life throws my way.

posted by Celeste632 on July 3, 2004 at 1:18 PM | link to this | reply

Is that theory the reason that Mr. Kafka wrote about a cockroach?

posted by TARZANA on July 2, 2004 at 2:20 PM | link to this | reply

I was referring
to the comment about the lack of comments. :)

posted by Hannah_B on July 2, 2004 at 2:14 PM | link to this | reply

I think
I think what is being said here is that we need to be alone in the act of writing in order to tap into the deepest well of our own emotions and experiences. I don't believe she is saying she doesn't want to share her writing once complete just that while actually writing she needs to be completely alone. Writing in a vacume.

posted by wildtigerlilly on July 2, 2004 at 1:47 PM | link to this | reply

Yes, but

We need an audience, no? For unless we're merely journaling (and no one who posts here is, imho, "merely" journaling), we write to communicate, even if with one other.  Comments let us know that someone is reading.  So, here you go. 

posted by Hannah_B on July 2, 2004 at 1:28 PM | link to this | reply

Wow!
What a quote...leave to Kafka to write something that intense.

posted by MiaElla on July 2, 2004 at 1:05 PM | link to this | reply