Should I Call First?
Waiting feels like gathering information, but often it's just another way of avoiding the risk of being known.
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
The Tiv teach us about the internal books we have as a collective...
The inner book is strived for as an individual, but only seen in fragments, and reworked the moment books are read by our imaginations...
Every writer who has spoken to one of their readers has experienced an uncanny valley of what they meant by what they wrote, versus what they hear back about what they wrote according to the reader...
The anxiety of the writer increases as we discuss his work ... you've got the wrong guy!..
The only reasonable thing to do is to praise a book as ambiguously as possible...
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
Going down a staircase while expecting another step, causing the mind and body to break pace with each other, and stumble...
He [Balestrieri] memorized the number, but went back to the address book from time to time to run his finger over it and remember the first time...
A man who was dead and who she knew was dead...
Is that you, Mauro?..
Catatonically – should I be the first to call, or should I wait for her to call me? she calls, but I did not receive the power I expected, I got nothing in reality...
Painting alone would fill the void in my life that she would leave...
The empty canvas is frightened, but docile. It can lead to anything, but cannot endure everything...
Her whole body seemed to attract my glances the way the dry Earth swallows the rain...
Her big, dark eyes rested upon me, and yet she did not see me...
With Cecilia, I could only be bored, or suffer...
Japanese
Homework continues to pile up...
Hiragana I recognize but then forget later: か, あ,せ, た, へ, れ, が,
Hiragana I recognize and remember: い, く, こ, し, す, と, の, む, り, ぶ, ん
Japanese sentences end in verbs?..
Present and future share the same tense?..
Gym
Studies
Etc
I changed my home screen to be aspirational, but I still end up on YouTube and Instagram Reels...
Teleprompter <3 Silence Removal
Just start. Make a plan that is easy, and includes progressive overload...
- <...> brackets in Field Notes indicate a #instabram related concept (or for books: B#P#[...])
- Hire an elf
- Collect assets
- ChatGPT Title + Excerpt
- Images
- Screen Record for YouTube
- Upload to https://www.youtube.com/@InstaBramStudies
