I often think of my stories as a shape. It's a globular mass of people, events, and details that are all connected somehow in a 3D web. And the process of writing is trying to project that 3D mass into 1D, one linear narrative, which is why the process can be so painful.
"being" writing: PDF/X, the Book, the pwd-protected blogpost, "final-final.docx" <br /> "becoming" writing: massive .md files incl. code and comments dissected to output excerpts, memes, tweets, .odt, .wav, clipboard-pasted html, deepl-translated rants, slides & other nightmares
Today, a useful description that moves beyond the contested distinctions between space and place can be summed up in the simple equation: “space + meaning = place” [10]. Space is the abstract perception of the world around us and place is space as lived and experienced. Where the concept of space encourages a purely mathematical description (Cartesian or otherwise), place requires a more phenomenological, body-centered orientation. Casey (and Aristotle) would argue that space refers to objective geometrical extension and location, and that place describes our subjective experience of being in the world and investing a physical location or setting with meaning, memories, and feeling [11]
I’m standing on the shoulders of thousands of years of knowledge. I think it’s so important that we all recognize this. There is so much knowledge there that we’ve ignored.
When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back.
Space is something abstract, without any substantial meaning. While place refers to how people are aware of/attracted to a certain piece of space. A place can be seen as space that has a meaning.
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