Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY/LITERATURE:
Jackson Browne in the documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes Part I, says:
What people were trying to do, wherever they were, whether it was in Laurel Canyon or it was Greenich Village, they were trying to find out who they are.
And I think a lot of that involves leaving where you’re from and going somewhere else.
But I think what you find is something about where you’re from.
Ernest Hemingway often wrote novels set in places he lived, but wrote them WHILE he lived in other places.
He wrote about Spain (The Sun Also Rises) when he lived in France, Began writing about France when he lived in Cuba (Garden of Eden) and he wrote about Italy (Farewell to Arms) when he lived in the United States.
Why do YOU think these two storytellers were able to write of places so vividly, when they were away from them? How did they seemingly know more about the places they lived and themselves, in retrospect?
Assuming YOU ‘relocated’ at some point in your life, if YOU were to write about one of the places YOU lived, what would YOU write about….who would your characters be……what would the vibe be that would sum up that time, in that place?
Last Updated on 08/12/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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