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The Monday Morning Memo

Jim-Morrison-Grave_April-2015

The wizard has been trying to teach me about writing and about photography.
He says the key to both is in “what you leave out.” He says the art of careful omission
awakens the imagination of both viewer and reader. In the language I added to the
photo above – which I snapped, by the way – you will notice I chose not to use
the words “musician” or “died” or even “years-old.”
You added those words yourself.

Sometimes I pay attention to the wizard
when I’m pretending not to.
– Indy

14 million people have taken this 7-minute road trip with Jim Morrison.
You really should make it 14 million and one.|
You get to ride shotgun while Jim drives and sings,
unaware he’ll be dead within a year. Heroine.
Wow.

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“For twenty-seven years Sitka Central has been temporarily housed in eleven modular buildings in a vacant lot behind the old Russian orphanage.”

- Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, opening line of chapter 7, p. 52. A good example of a complex mental image created through a combination of unexpected words, careful crafted by an award-winning writer.

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