Let’s Talk About Word of Mouth, the Unforeseen, and Delicious Trouble

Okay friends, I think it needs to be stated that none of the photos on my wee blog are AI, none of the words are either. When I quote something, I’m usually typing it out while eyeballing it in a paper book. And I’ve usually underlined it and dogeared the page it’s on. So that’s where we’re at. It’s fine. We making it happen amiright? Firstly, dig Heraclitus:“Whoever cannot seekthe unforeseen sees nothing,for the known wayis an impasse.” We are not moving into a knowable future, but you know what, we never were. I have to say that the research I’m doing on the novel I’m writing about libraries and card catalogues and the future, is so much fun and taking me to the coolest places. In the old days, I’d probably share some of that here, but it’s the new upside down secretive world of writing that we now inhabit I suppose and it seems folly to speak about one’s projects. But one essay that pops out is by Umberto Eco, on censorship. He wrote it in 2009 and it feels like he knew what our…