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[Steven Koteff]

Your point is a good one. My inclination is also, yes, to think the casualness is totally mindful. That all the referents are chosen with purpose. Etc. 

Thinking about the consciousness of his casual nonfiction prose makes me think of the unconsciousness that must have nonetheless gone into his more obviously purposeful writing, like M&D. 

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think that offhand casualness is achieved with full mindfulness. 
> Almost a h/t homage to On the Road, name-checked as you 
> mention. 
> 
> Just like another fave 'natural', casual novel, Tropic of Capricorn 
> or Thoreau's 'just setting it down' , what I think and see,  Walden
> each took four rewrites to get so natural. 
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