A summary of what I wrote in 2024 - Escaping Flatland

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A man sets out to draw the world.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face. —Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories This is what writing is like to me. I’ll work on a topic until it bores me, then I pick something else, unrelated. I’m just piling random observations. But then, in December, I skim what I’ve published during the year and…

A summary of what I wrote in 2024 - Escaping Flatland

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