*I'm in the process of condensing and deleting old journals. Blogger doesn't offer the font needed for this entry, so it's going in here. Hope you'll stop by Maraca at Blogspot.
Vladimir Script
Writing needs to be slow. It needs to flow like breathing, eddy like a river around great stones, in cadence and motion. There is silence, expectant, before the beginning of the world. Then there is the rise and fall, the line spun out carefully, caressing its own meaning, becoming real. Every letter is part of every other, each a perfect moment within itself and each a revelation of color and sound and meaning gusting into the world for the very first time.
Handmade words are each their own, every one bearing the touch of its creator, a precious and unique thing. The pen is a magic wand, bringing to life worlds and deeds and will, directly from the soul into the world. There is no backspace. The idea must be given form. Attention must be paid. Intent must be clear.
The vision swirls in the mind, taking shape and form in the void. The page is empty, waiting, hushed. The hand stirs, and the world begins: A touch, light or forceful; the swelling of a rounded belly, the sharp spike of an i; dabs of dots and flickers of commas, the heady pouring out of line and swirl; pauses, hangs on a moment and falls gracefully, heartbreakingly down and down and down to the endings of all the possible universes.
The page turns and it begins again, worlds without end. Amen, Amen.
Blessed are they who write longhand, for they shall know God.
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Palatino Linotype is a nice font.
This, though, is Vladimir Script, which actually looks like handwriting. It's still pecky, though, done on the processor. But I like it. Wonder what it looks like on a machine that doesn't have it installed?
*Salvaged from private journal Midnight Maraca, Sept 7, 2005.
