A Recap

One issue with writing a blog is that a person does not sit on an entry for any length of time before publishing; sometimes a person publishes an entry when one should wait a while, reread it, check for spelling mistakes and revise it if necessary. One wants the instant satisfaction of having a few readers and this can result in slight errors. Recently, for instance, I have been writing posts in the middle of the night – a post published at five in the morning may not be of the highest quality.

This is the case with my most recent post, "Me and Jon Stewart Part 3". The gist of it is accurate but I wish I had expressed myself more clearly. Sometimes I go back to posts and edit them but I feel, with this particular post, that I cannot do that. It just has to stand as it is. One specific error I included though really does need clarifying - I said in this previous post that I recovered from psychosis by talking about my experiences. This is not quite true. I described some of my symptoms to some people but, when I was experiencing psychotic symptoms, I told no-one, especially not anyone in the Mental Health Services. People are assholes and I would have been misunderstood. It would have been used against me.

Over the last year, I have written between fifteen and twenty posts. When I started writing, the aim of the blog was to expound a particular theory of narrative. The theory I devised has utility and merit, and I wish it could receive greater attention.  As the blog went on, however, I stopped talking exclusively about literary theory and broadened its subject matter to include other concerns. For instance, I started including short stories, talking about writers rather than their work and discussing schizophrenia a little, a topic I am obviously interested in. The post about A Beautiful Mind is another short essay which I feel probably should be revised. I am no expert on John Nash but my view of aspects of his condition may have been inaccurate or badly expressed - but then the film was much worse.

If you would like to read one of my short stories, I recommend 69, A Refusal to Mourn or Starlight. If you want something more intellectual, I recommend Meiongianism and the Phenomenology of Knowledge. If you are curious about my narrative theory, I suggest Applying Predicate Calculus to Literature as perhaps its best expression. My favorite post is Concerning Kafka and Wilde - although if it is Kafka you are interested in, you should also read the follow up Some More Thoughts about Kafka. If you like James Joyce, read Exhuming Joyce's "The Dead'. And so on.

On a personal note… in 2012, during the year I was discharged from the Service, I completed a Masters in Creative Writing, during which course I wrote a film script. I have just found out that the embargo on it has just been lifted, so that anyone can go to the AUT Library and read it if he or she wants. I had high hopes for that film when I wrote it and perhaps, one day, I can revise it into something that can be made. I don't know why I feel compelled to say that the embargo on it has been lifted - I suspect that it may be significant to my life that it has been made publicly available and this is why I feel I shoud mention it.