A question can be useful before it is answerable. Keep it near the work. Let later entries change its edges. Write down the question before collecting more material. Mark what would count as a change, not only what would count as confirmation.…
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I went out without making an image of the afternoon. The light still changed. The bakery still closed its shutters. A child dragged a stick along the railing until the sound stopped at the corner. Nothing needed to be kept as proof.…
Read entrySome questions resist the first answer because the first answer is too eager. I returned to one question three times, each time with a different kind of material: a statistic, a conversation, and a long silence in the record. First return: the…
Read entryA list tells me what I touched. A reading log tells me what stayed. The useful unit is not the title and the date alone, but the small change in the reader: a sentence that altered the question, a disagreement that became…
Read entryA category starts as a filing decision and slowly becomes a second memory. “Places” does not only collect addresses. It gathers the tone of streets, the distance between two stations, and the question of what makes somewhere returnable. Names change their work…
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A recurring walk is not a route repeated exactly. The route stays almost the same while the attention changes: one week the construction fence is the subject, another week it is the sound of a delivery truck reversing, and then the first…
Read entry我还在写博客，是因为有些想法需要一个不会马上消失的地方。 把东西留下来 短消息适合即时反应，博客适合让一个想法慢慢长出上下文。今天写下的一段话，过一阵子可以和一本书、一条街或另一个问题重新相遇。 我不要求每篇文章都完整。只希望它们在需要的时候，仍然能够被找到。
Read entry余白は、何もない場所ではない。文章と文章のあいだに、まだ名前のついていない考えが戻ってくるための時間だ。 ページにすべてを詰め込まない。読者が自分の速度を取り戻せるように、見出し、線、間隔だけを置いておく。 余白は装飾ではなく、読み続けるための構造である。
Read entry我常常在同一條路上走三次：趕時間時，它只是一段距離；有空時，它變成一個地方；多年以後回頭看，它又像是一條記錄時間的線。 第一種速度：通過 趕車的下午，店舖、樹影和路口只以障礙物的形式出現。身體知道方向，眼睛沒有餘裕保存細節。 第二種速度：停留 慢下來之後，路開始有自己的節奏。誰在門前整理貨物，哪一面牆最早接到陽光，雨後的水會在哪裡聚集，都成為可以再認出的標記。 第三種速度不是更慢，而是回到同一處時，已經知道它曾經如何改變。
Read entryA personal blog is a small promise: to leave a place where the longer version of a thought can remain available. A slower entrance The internet encourages a quick answer. A personal blog can make room for the sentence that needs another…
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