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Self-portraits are a form of diary-keeping, and diary-keeping is a kind of self-portrait. An embodied reading of these two genres enables us to rethink their temporal and phenomenological status as documents of self-writing, and to see them as attempts to come to terms with the ways in which the body both hinders and helps the artist or writer to carry out her imaginative work.

normal things with creepy connotations:

“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”