essaysbysean.com “When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know,what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.” James Baldwin Hi, how are you? —Hurray!— The count just reached two hundred […]
A Feminist Life and A Time Travel Novel
seanessay.com I do like people of all genders, and I don’t like having my brain washed out with soap: I’d rather be clear eyed about my lovely society—but as a long ago college student, a believer in Women’s Liberation, told me, “The truth shall set you free. But first it will make you miserable.” That […]
Scandal of Schoolchildren Made to Write Mundane Essays
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What’s It All About, Seanie?
essaysbysean.com After one hundred blog essays, I suppose I should “build my character” by “considering the worst,” even if this stabs my vanity, by asking Is there any meaning to it all? Sometimes I stand in a dark void, albeit with pretty stars, feeling my writing is futile. Around me the space age has passed […]
Second Thoughts on this Sexy Blog
seanessay.com Never mind “meaning of life,” I’m just looking for “meaning of blog.” Sometimes I leave a warm sensual bed to go sit over at my table in the early morning to post—is it worth it? I am wondering, now, for this landmark 75th entry. It’s been a year since I started with an obligatory […]
After Fifty Passionate Posts
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