Confront this nausea

I have mixed feelings about words myself

Moving among them

–sorting them out

Watching them

–appear on the page

From this I derive
a considerable pleasure

But at the same time

I have another strong feeling about words
which amounts to nothing less than nausea

But if it is possible to confront this nausea

–then it is possible to say

that something has occurred
that something has been achieved

In 1962 playwright Harold Pinter delivered a speech in Bristol on ‘Writing for the Theatre’. Pinter’s speech inspired this week’s piece, and the one that follows.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.