I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
You need music, I dont know why.It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
I was coming back on a plane from Las Vegas and I kept putting something down and scratching it out, ... It struck me how difficult it is, in three or four minutes, to encapsulate what has happened over the last 30 or 40 years of my life.
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
The problem is trying to encapsulate 38 years of your life, of everything that has happened, the ups, the downs, the people involved,
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