the copy-paste above of an image from Twitter links to the article referred to here:
John McPhee reflects on “the many writing projects that I have conceived and seriously planned across the years but have never written.”*
from the article:
I decided to describe saved-up, bypassed, intended pieces of writing as an old-man project, the purpose of which is never to end.
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George H. W. Bush jumped out of airplanes on his octo birthdays. Some people develop their own Presidential libraries without experiencing a prior need to be President. For offspring and extended families, old people write books about their horses, their houses, their dogs, and their cats, published at the kitchen table. Old-people projects keep old people old. You’re no longer old when you’re dead.
2023-06-21 / notes
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McPhee (!*) / results of a site search on miscellany
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