mostly on calculation and naivety
otherppl podcast, Karl Ove Knausgård 50:20-51:22
transcript: ”If you start to have ideas that you are in some sort of position, then it's really hard to write. Everything of that has to go away, it has to be in a room alone, and there shouldn't be anything, any thoughts about who you are, or I mean what people think about you as a writer, because that's really ruining the writing. That's corruption, you know, and to me writing is the opposite of corruption. It's to get to a place where that doesn't exist really, where you are very open and that's also why my writing is, has always... and it annoys me, but is naive, it's always some sort of naivety in them, and that's I think is because of that, because of calculation isn't a part of my writing, and that means that naivety can just rush in, and take some place, and it annoys me, but I have no idea how I could mature as a writer and get rid of that. It's not something I like in my writing, but it's always there."
i can relate.
i think functioning with an awareness of one's own naivety can open many doors to new ideas. yet completely blocking naivety from the mind could limit imagination and lead to a loss of the sense of fun in life.
even if the infantile side of me caused a lot of unnecessary misery over the years, looking back, at least i was open and honest.
have I been irrational at times, and did I feel foolish because of it? yes.
i really enjoyed the morning star series by knausgård last year, though i've read three of the books in the sequence so far, onto the next one
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