multiplicity

Difficult to write an intro post for a new blog without getting navel-gazey, so instead I will just cite Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium.

I chose “multiplicity” for this blog, because of a quote in the Multiplicity chapter of Six Memos. Calvino, who is my guiding literary star, describes novels as networks, and closes the lecture with this:

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

Writing is not work done in a vacuum. I have my magpie hoards of ideas, words, imageries, etc — my lenses, to see through. Now comes the time to write what I see, or what I imagine.