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A PERSONAL JOURNAL NO. 001
The Shape
of Absence.
On things seen and unseen, known and wondered about. A wandering record of the world's peculiarities and the mind's unfinished business.
Enter the journalEST. IN CURIOSITYWRITTEN WITHOUT AN ITINERARY
FIG. 01 THE SPACE BETWEEN
AN INCOMPLETE CIRCLEINK ON IMAGINARY PAPER
I. A SMALL PREFACE
“Not everything that catches our attention needs to become something useful.”
This is a place for asking, wandering, revisiting, and occasionally changing one's mind. There is no particular subject, no publishing calendar, and no promise of conclusions.
✳II. FROM THE JOURNALAN UNORDERED COLLECTION
PLATE I. THE PAGE BEFORE WORDS
JOURNAL · AN OPEN PAGE
An open page.
An open page.
For now.
Some things are worth keeping to oneself until they have found their words. The journal will begin when there is something ready to share.
There are no published essays yet.
III. THE INDEXFOLLOW AN INTEREST
A cabinet of curiosities.
No neat categories, really. Only temporary arrangements for an untidy mind.
Nothing has been published here yet.
A thought need not become a thesis
to deserve a page.
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IV. A NOTE ON THIS PLACENO GRAND DECLARATIONS
A room for
the rest of the mind.
Some things are worth exploring simply because they are interesting. A word with an improbable past. A footnote that opens into a century. An elegant idea that turns out to be wrong.
This journal is an excuse to pay attention to those things. To read without a purpose, write without a brief, and let an unanswered question remain unanswered a little longer.
RB / NOTES TO SELF