I looked into my steamer trunk and I found books; loads and loads of random books. They smelled musty. They felt good in my hands, something of real substance: the physical incarnation of ideas.
The other day I did a writing exercise using some of the books that are stacked around me. I started out by picking up a book at random, opening it and pointing. I used that idea to write from, until I got stuck then I'd pick up a different book and do the same thing.
The result was not fantastic writing, but it was fun and interesting. I think it would be fun to do this somehow in our group, maybe we could each choose a few random quotes from books then give them to each other to write about?
Fabulous idea. Should we agree to each come up with one quote, to start? Then each of us would have two (or three? use our own?) sources to write a few paragraphs or pages about.
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