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Karl Hyde of the band Underworld had a process based around getting drunk in public with a notebook and later revisiting his writing. It was neither romantic no
by antiterra 6y ago
Karl Hyde of the band Underworld had a process based around getting drunk in public with a notebook and later revisiting his writing. It was neither romantic nor necessary; he stopped drinking and continued to write just as well.
Sure, becoming dedicated to a craft is an act of (not necessarily negative) self-destruction and often fueled by pressing on our own wounds. But that’s not exclusive to a single pursuit nor a single vice.
- cafard 6y agoHerodotus says of the Persians (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2707/pg2707.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2707/pg2707.txt) To wine-drinking they are very much given, and it is not permitted for a man to vomit or to make water in presence of another. Thus do they provide against these things; and they are wont to deliberate when drinking hard about the most important of their affairs, and whatsoever conclusion has pleased them in their deliberation, this on the next day, when they are sober, the master of the house in which they happen to be when they deliberate lays before them for discussion: and if it pleases them when they are sober also, they adopt it, but if it does not please them, they let it go: and that on which they have had the first deliberation when they are sober, they consider again when they are drinking.
- contingencies 6y agoSo drunk self and sober self form a quorum by referee? That's going to be exploitable and slow.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoIt makes sense if you think about it. If you feel the same way about a thing when your emotions are at their worst/most uninhibited, at their best/most shrewd, and when they’re most vulnerable/scrutinized, it’s a pretty good sign they’re sincere.
- contingencies 6y agoSure its pretty balanced and conservative but you forfeit any potential for rapid action, privacy and self-determination. I don't think the best writers write by quorum and referee.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoThe quote referred to this process for “the most important of their affairs”. For writing, surely that would mean sleeping on and vetting big new ideas, rather than the entire process?