WALLS HAVE MOUTHS (# 74,930)
The whereabouts of the nearest wall affects what and how we write. Many of us sit at a desk with our face to the wall as we shunt our desk up against a wall so things don’t fall off. Facing a wall creates a visual focus but leaves our back open to surprise unless we are writing in a super narrow room such as a water closet in which case we write novels which we assume are works of genius, but are, in a word, shit. Now flip round 180 degrees. With our backs to the wall, we are suddenly secure but distracted. All that shit is now going on in front of us. We write emotionally but irrationally, the opposite of before. If we write in the open air, miles from the nearest wall, the only boundaries that will hem in our writing are hedges. If we write in a car, the confinement is offset by the movement. If we write in a stationary car, you’re right, it’s akin to writing bollocks in a toilet. To conclude, walls do not have ears as much as mouths. To unconclude, writing on walls is a separate discussion with its own laws of influence.
In case you’re wondering, this post was written on a toilet in my last day of solitary confinement, but tomorrow I get parole.
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