Splash du Jour: Wednesday

When you’re a writer, you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you, and if you are at all intelligent you realize that you have lost something. But I think there has always been this dichotomy in a real writer. He wants to be terribly human, and he responds emotionally, and at the same time there’s this cold observer who cannot cry.
-- Brian Moore –
[Note: Moore is one of my favorite writers ever, and in his novel An Answer From Limbo, the protagonist, writer Brendan Tierney, is the consummate example of the above principle: emotion vs. emotional detachment. The novel is superb.]
Have a great Wednesday!