meanwhile i should still be writing but i’m reading a bit of teresa of avila (admit that the image of her, the book and the pen is amazing!), and see how she announces her writings:
“I really think I have little to say that I have not already said in other books which I have been commanded to write; indeed I am afraid that I shall do little but repeat myself, for I write as mechanically as birds taught to speak, which, knowing nothing but what is taught them and what they hear, repeat the same things again and again. If the Lord wishes me to say anything new, His Majesty will teach it me or be pleased to recall to my memory what I have said on former occasions; and I should be quite satisfied with this, for my memory is so bad that I should be delighted if I could manage to write down a few of the things which people have considered well said, so that they should not be lost. If the Lord should not grant me as much as this, I shall still be the better for having tried, even if this writing under obedience tires me and makes my head worse, and if no one finds what I say of any profit.”
(Teresa of Avila, 1577, Interior Castle)
it has all been said before, i don’t really remember what it’s all about, i should have written it down when i was talking to a friend and explaining it so well, nobody is going read this anyway, and it’s giving me a headache. already back then…