rewriting undigested remnants

• going backwards – regression belongs to the digestive mode … a good deal of remembering, its pain, its shame, is recapitulation, revising the chapter again before it can close … Writing …, then rewriting and editing, belong to its therapy, healing the fiction of its ill-considered moments, its undigested remnants … need to purge our writing of the fashionable jargon of borrowed ideas, conventionalism, and self-reflecting conceits … to notice adjectives, prepositional phrases, even commas, that make for precision and sharpen the images to essentials. … follow-up in writing is our digestion

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1. journey

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