Despite their enticingly linear, page-numbered format, books are really collections of circles
The more harmonious the vibrating circles, the richer the book
Few understand this | Matt is a fan of Victor Hugo
I found that tweet oddly revelatory. It spoke directly on what is another way of thinking in text. How to not visualize words as sentences or paragraphs but as circular constructs made up of parts. I have made an nft of that. The circles are rigid but a draft version of any book has the tacticity of hand-drawn circles. There is a lot to unpack with the idea. Here I am just introducing some early possibilities that I think can develop the discussion. Circles address an issue with the form writing can take other than dummies. Printed drafts. It is a way to think about how anything said can all fit into a circular thought of sorts. For example with this text, scheduled around 300 words can take a certain form when that 300 is drawn out as a circle. It makes a lot of sense in the context of other texts when drawn as circles. Circles I would say is the second part in a methodology of document-making I am trying out with the kindle book. What would 32, maybe 35-36 circles put together say about the book? To draw out the book is a parallel activity in the making. A methodology developed during sentences is the block writing of texts. Make texts of 300ish words and build the narrative in increments of sized paragraphs. So articles would go from 300, to say a maximum of 3000, whatever I can get done. It will roughly average with 1200 words for most texts. But every text will get its circular drawing. All text blocks are a circle and all articles are sized on their length with the number of circles as indicators of the number of text blocks. The four sections too will have their drawings composed. How much of the proposition I can extrapolate, I need to set those limits out. Over time these diagrams are mapped into a larger drawing representing texts produced.
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