Soundboards, Aphorisms And Ten-Second Essays

Grateful Dead: 11/8/69

5/26/73

A beginning ends what an end begins.

The best time is stolen time.

Why would we write
if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?

Opacity gives way. Transparency is the mystery.

Believe stupid praise, deserve stupid criticism.

The dead are still writing.
Every morning, somewhere, is a line, a passage,
a whole book you are sure wasn’t there yesterday.

To feel an end is to discover that there had been a beginning.
A parenthesis closes that we hadn’t realized was open).

There, all along, was what you wanted to say.
But this is not what you wanted, is it, to have said it?

--James Richardson
from On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

8/6/74