Here find the mark of revolutionary intelligence, writ in intimacy with place and moment, person … imperfection… and intentional diversion from the norms of trite detail.

True insight helps with »seeing, and all seeing helps with being… and from being’s secret ancient lips? True writing may spring forth … renewed by gestures such as this.

“In some medieval houses I’ve visited, sometimes the treads were made deliberately uneven so that intruders would more likely to fall as they were storming up them. I can’t imagine how this knowledge will help with writing, but one never knows. “

— Ari Berk