One of the things they tell writers is “always write your ideas down”. The truth is, natural language is so impossibly vast that every sentence we think or say, outside of boilerplate hellos, pleasantries, and goodbyes, could be unique. But our memories are NOT structured to retain unique information; instead, they integrate it into familiar patterns so it can be reconstructed – not exactly retrieved.
So if you hit on a bon mot, you’re better off writing it down.
OR, put another way, I forgot to write down what I planned to write in this post, and it’s GONE.
-the Centaur
Pictured: Vibe Coffee in Denver, where I am writing this ahead of time, as I will soon (as of this writing) be on a redeye flight, and then (as of this posting) be recovering from said redeye.
P.S. If you got a brief flash of this post on the 9th, ignore it. Wait until the 11th. 😀
