Middle C position …
When I’m writing, it’s the fingers that originate words. Each letter is evoked thoughtlessly, a physical response, as automatic as breath. If I stop to think about it, the neural sparks that move words invisibly from eye to screen stutter to a stop and the keyboard ceases to be kinetic — pure musculature — and becomes a visual thing apart from me.
My eye makes of the keyboard a schizoid mess of letters. So the trick is not to look down, not to think, to let the words slip past the eyes, as the hands quietly do the work.
Posted: September 16th, 2006 under Lately.