Re: Famous Authors’ Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits and Reflections on the Divide Between the Private Person and the Writerly Persona
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 23:00:35 CST 2013
We are all many selves. Some habitual, Pavlovian, some unconditioned and
pure. Mostly a mix.
On Friday, November 8, 2013, David Morris wrote:
> *“Only the crazed and the privileged permit themselves the luxury of
> disintegration into more than one self.”*
> On Friday, November 8, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/08/whos-writing-this-notations-on-the-authorial-i-with-self-portraits/
>>
>> *“It is to my other self, to Borges, that things happen… I live, I agree
>> to go on living, so that Borges may fashion his literature,”* Jorge Luis
>> Borges <http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/jorge-luis-borges/> wrote
>> in his famous essay “Borges and I,” eloquently exploring our shared human
>> tendency to disintegrate into multiple personas as our public and private
>> selves slip in and out of different worlds. In 1996, *Daniel Halpern
>> asked *56 of our era’s most celebrated writers to reflect on Borges’s
>> memorable meditation and contribute their own thoughts on the relationship
>> between the person writing and the fictional persona of the writer. The
>> resulting short essays, alongside hand-drawn self-portraits from each
>> author — a recurring theme today<http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/08/self-portrait-as-your-traitor-debbie-millman/> —
>> are gathered in *Who’s Writing This?: Notations on the Authorial I with
>> Self-Portraits*<http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Writing-This-Notations-Self-Portraits/dp/0880014466/?tag=braipick-20>
>> (*public library*<http://www.worldcat.org/title/whos-writing-this-notations-on-the-authorial-i-with-self-portraits/oclc/30477278&referer=brief_results>),
>> a priceless addition to this omnibus of famous writers’ timeless wisdom
>> on the craft<http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/>
>> .
>>
>>
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