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Author(s) -
Marjorie Kanter
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of life writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2211-243X
DOI - 10.5463/ejlw.5.184
Subject(s) - feeling , action (physics) , meaning (existential) , reflection (computer programming) , gesture , word (group theory) , self reflection , aesthetics , linguistics , computer science , psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
Words matter. Actions matter. The same word, the same action can sometimes mean something quite similar to author and reader, yet at other times something very different from writer to reader and reader to reader, and yet still carry meaningful meaning. At the outset, I write for myself, to help let go of, enjoy, work through, understand, save a thought, an experience, a gesture, an encounter... When I decide to share my writing formally, it is because I feel I have reached a corpus that will be meaningful to others, that it can stand alone without me. Most of my writing is a reflection of real experience, either a short interact between several people or a reflection on life in feelings or thoughts. This piece was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on July 10th 2015, and published on February 21st 2016.