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Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Coggle Diagram
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
1. Lightness
Working Method
''I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language''
The story of
Perseus and Medusa
Philosophical View
Lucretius
and
Ovid
One author finds lightness through scientific inquiry, the other through the fables of myth
Dante Alighieri
’s concreteness
Arising from the writer
Completely independent of the writer’s philosophical position
Way of Thinking
A way of rising above the noise of life
Milan Kundera’s book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. Quickness
Species of Lightness
Agility, mobility, ease
Extracting maximum effectiveness
Unique, dense, precise, memorable method of expression
Speed in the time of narration
(Charlemagne)
Speed of thought
(Galileo)
Coincision
(Leopardi)
3.Exactitude
A well-defined and
well-calculated plan
for the work in question
The use of
logical, numerical, or geometrical systems
to structure a work
An evocation of
clear, incisive, memorable
visual images
Deleting tangential elements
to increase intensity
Avoiding language that is random, approximate or careless
A language as
precise
as possible both in choice of words and in expression of the subtleties of thought and imagination
Exactness of style
Joyce
,
Pynchon
,
Nabokov
4. Visiblity
The nature of artistic inspiration
Apollo
’s orderly rationality and
Dionysus
’ passionate irrationality
Honore de Balzac
:
Comedie humaine
Linking exteriority and interiority
, world and self, experience and imagination
Forming a field of analogies
, symmetries and confrontations, and then organising this material
Immagination
5. Multiplicity
Ambition
necessary since writing is an attempt to represent the
multiplicity of connections in the universe
Realising the
never-ending
and labyrinthine variety of things, both in
effect and in potentiality
Proust, Mann, Eliot, Joyce, Gadda, Musil, Borges
Abiding of
Rules
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.” -
Frost
As stimulation
6. Consistency
Calvino died before finishing this memo