People who write are basically miserable. Why? It’s partly because they’re spies & traitors, always taking down notes and using people for material. Betraying them by fixing them with words, as you would pin a butterfly. There’s an extent to which writing kills by fixing things.
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The neurosis can also manifest in world-building of the fantastical sort. A surprising number of authors write because they don’t like the world, Burroughs said this. They build a world they can inhabit.
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This can lead to drinking or drug taking as a means to escape neurosis—the desire to escape reality, and also to escape the miserable neurotic re-experience of reality.
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