Thinking about the form it should all take. The trouble is the material that already exists — Nica and Old Man Action Figures — because I can’t let them determine the overall book. They were not written for a book or as a book. I need to be able to show a thesis, need to be able to work toward an argument, need each chapter to be iterations. Reading Steve Shaviro’s Connected tonight, it struck me that a similar sort of fragmentary form could be useful — or rather fragmented, but not fragmentary. Each paragraph leads to an idea in the next paragraph, but the paragraphs are also mini-essays of their own, each with a title. I don’t want to go that far — I want the freedom to have multiple paragraphs in each unit, but I also want the freedom to have a single-paragraph unit when necessary. I think the Nica chapter lends itself to this, but not sure about Old Man Action Figures. (Or maybe it’s okay to have the end be a more traditionally fluid piece.)
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