katrintheresa on Nostr: “This type of woman and that type of woman--just so many life rings thrown to a ...

“This type of woman and that type of woman--just so many life rings thrown to a drowning Heraclitus. Each one a different form of fiction. Is it possible to be as flexible on the page as shamelessly self-forgiving and ever changing as we are in life? We can't seem to find the way. Instead, to write is to swim in an ocean of hypocrisies, moment by moment. We know we are deluded, but the strange thing is that this delusion is necessary, if only temporarily, to create the mold in the first place, the one into which you pour everything you can't give shape to in life. This is all better said by Kierkegaard, in a parable:

"THE DOG KENNEL BY THE PALACE"

~Zadie Smith from her book Intimations