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Foreshadowings, etc.
July 21, 2008 | | 2 Comments
So today’s talk of typology was hugely interesting and now I sort of feel like I should go read the Bible through a couple times and try and catch some of this stuff myself. But seeing as I am, like everyone else I think, being swallowed up by a paper at the moment, that doesn’t sound too feasible. I do sort of see how it connects into the paper writing, though, and beyond that prose writing (which is where my head is usually stuck, anyway).
Telling stories, you do get to play God a little bit. (And here is one continual item of frustration: spring semester, in Contemporary American Fiction, Professor Stewart gave an eloquent little talk about why God doesn’t tell stories, we tell stories. And now I can’t remember any of it but I know it was good and would help out here. So frustrating!) But when you start to tell enough stories, you begin to make them, well, better. Fuller and wholer. It’s like doing anything enough: as long as you put a certain amount of your head in the process and as long as you persist, you begin to get better at it. Keep doing it and you’ll find, looking back over what you’ve written, that things loop up the way they should. Seeds were planted before you knew you needed the tree, I guess. Things come to fruition in a more natural way. (What is with all the vegetative metaphors? It’s leaking through from my paper, I guess…) Anyway, seeing this, it’s a little easier to think about things as God makes them, at least for me. Sometimes you just have to plant things and wait a while before they sprout.
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