i'm terribly jetlagged, but i'm okay.

and eventually i will forget you.

anyway. the trip. my apparent holiday.

i think i'll just share little snippets as and when. it was no big self-discovery thing for me or soothing getaway. just a lot of stress and anxiety and insanity.

one of the highlights though, was talking [or rather listening] to the english professor at brown university.

its not easy meeting all these strangers and basically having to act all chummy so when he asked me what i liked to read outside of textbook i more or less froze up. but i managed to utter, 'hemingway' and then that set him off because he had a lot to say about hemingway.

he told me about how hemingway had a very disciplined style of writing, so much so that if you removed one word, or added another word to the sentence - it would collapse completely. how hemingway broke the rules of structure and grammar and punctuation yet if it were done any differently it would be all wrong. how hemingway's writing was 'there'. not 'there' like a reference to a place but quite simply, 'there', like how we would say 'the pen is there, on the table'. his writing was a complete whole object. how hemingway said 'make it up' and people thought it meant to conjure a story but he really just meant - 'make it up' in the way that someone constructs something inanimate. how his writing was just.. so.. THERE. for lack of a better description.

it's quite amazing.

+ posted by M @ 9:35 PM