Talking of Which, 24.1.24

Emojis, Marie Antoinettes and Monks

My selection of bits and bobs continues…

---

Feelings and Emotions

Talking of which…

---

A Trillion Emoji

Unable to express our feelings in words, fused to the fateless, flick-book image of life, the reading eye becomes a stranger to intensity, specificity and irony and requires little symbols to be sure that it is getting the correct reading. We call these ‘emoticons’, the graveyard of the face. If these things did the job they were supposed to do, express feeling, there would be trillions of the things, a sample of twelve I offer to the discerning reader. 😉

---

The Spiritual Hermit

So. I wrote about this a few months ago, but I didn’t mention something which has since occurred to me, but which, thanks to an afternoon communing at twilight with the stillness of the lake, I’ve now come to see is actually more central than I’d first thought. As a writer, I find that re-engagement with the wellspring of story forces one to confront oneself in new ways. So, I’d like now to look into something that touches on contemporary thought but which runs parallel to it, that is the impulse to…

Nah, just kidding.