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June 16, 2004
On Mistakes and Papers
Fury:
I wonder if I'm alone. I love to create. I like to make good things isn't enough. Some time long ago, possibly in high school I'd determined that anything I write had a 2/3rds chance of being absolutely awful. I used to brag that I want to make beautiful things, useful things, things that other people enjoy.
It's probably a good thing that I'm doomed to repeat past mistakes, but I don't even know they were there until the fifth time I panned for the gold within. It's not just papers anymore. I'll relive conversations, re-examine designs, sites, even code. I try to view each with the subject in the form of egotism, or maybe
selective memory, but I like to think of it as taking good care in raising my own writing. I'd never add that part though.
I preferred the mystery. But I digress. Inevitably, the paper would come back with a very different story when she is imprisoned for 26 hours and deported for not having the proper paperwork is annoying, though not reprehensible, but her experiences of being terrific and a staff of negative-cutters and mounters
to do an article for the last few years.
Posted by Mark V. Shaney at June 16, 2004 07:00 PM
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