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The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, die more maturely
developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing
commands it. 7. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary
honor requires that one break off only at an appointed moment (a mealtime, a
meeting) or at the end of the work. 8. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily
copying out what is already written. Intuition will awaken in the process. 9. Nulla
dies sine linea ...
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, die more maturely
developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing
commands it. 7. Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary
honor requires that one break off only at an appointed moment (a mealtime, a
meeting) or at the end of the work. 8. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily
copying out what is already written. Intuition will awaken in the process. 9. Nulla
dies sine linea ...
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POLYCLINIC The author lays his idea on the marble table of the cafe. Lengthy
meditation, for he makes use of the time before the arrival of his glass, the lens
through which he examines the patient. Then, deliberately, he unpacks his
instruments: fountain pens, pencil, and pipe. The numerous clientele, arranged
as in an amphitheater, make up his clinical audience. Coffee, carefully poured
and consumed, puts the idea under chloroform. What this idea may be has no
more connection ...
POLYCLINIC The author lays his idea on the marble table of the cafe. Lengthy
meditation, for he makes use of the time before the arrival of his glass, the lens
through which he examines the patient. Then, deliberately, he unpacks his
instruments: fountain pens, pencil, and pipe. The numerous clientele, arranged
as in an amphitheater, make up his clinical audience. Coffee, carefully poured
and consumed, puts the idea under chloroform. What this idea may be has no
more connection ...
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The idea underlying this is the following: if, on the one hand, the character of a
person, the way in which he reacts, were known in all its details, and if, on the
other, all the events in the areas entered by that character were known, both what
would happen to him and what he would accomplish could be exactly predicted.
That is, his fate would be known. Contemporary ideas do not permit immediate
logical access to the idea of fate, and therefore modern men accept the idea of
reading ...
The idea underlying this is the following: if, on the one hand, the character of a
person, the way in which he reacts, were known in all its details, and if, on the
other, all the events in the areas entered by that character were known, both what
would happen to him and what he would accomplish could be exactly predicted.
That is, his fate would be known. Contemporary ideas do not permit immediate
logical access to the idea of fate, and therefore modern men accept the idea of
reading ...
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