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It must be wonderful to be able to write and not actually be a writer. It really must be. Well, I imagine so at any rate. The thing is, I’m forced to be a writer. Why? By who? I don’t know, but that’s just the be all and end all of it. And drawing is like a TOTAL ACCIDENT to me. Something that happens completely by SURPRISE, like now, and isn’t it just wonderful to come up with drawings (sketches) without actually being an artist, or take photos without being a photographer? It should be compulsory for anybody who works in one discipline to chance their arm at something they haven’t the faintest about.

I wanted to tie my boxing gloves with strands of a woman’s hair
A boxer who fell and
Laughed at the grass and was...
(Arthur Cravan, boxer and poet)