the mere act of rearticulating something from memory that you read, whether moments or months ago—without attempting to add anything new—is creative and contributes to our collective sense of things
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the mere act of rearticulating something from memory that you read, whether moments or months ago—without attempting to add anything new—is creative and contributes to our collective sense of things
...appropriately/ironically, I spent 5 minutes trying to find someone else's articulation of this point to QT it 🙃 before eventually cutting my losses and articulating it once again myself. and I really like how it came out!
(there was a funny meta meme some weeks back where at least 2-3 people, maybe many more, were saying this same thing in their own words, maybe QTing each other)
I believe in the power of using your own words but I gotta say it's really cool to be able to embed other peoples' words in my own utterances too:
aha! I think this might have been the one I was trying to find/remember. I like it so much! it says a bunch mine doesn't say. and yet it doesn't say a bunch of what mine does say!
