But you can't know everything about what you're doing or what you've started in motion. And in that area of blankness, if you will, on your part, we, your characters, live our lives. Well, let's go on to something else. That's the same topic, Mr. Moore. But I'll approach it in a different way.
Writing is, after all, an unnatural act.
We're animals who have agreed upon the meanings of combinations of vocal utterances. That's already a set of symbols. For example, when you SAY dog, it is not the real dog but the symbol for dog. Now we move on to writing, which are argeed upon markings standing for agreed upon vocal symbols. And if that isn't enough to stop the writer cold on any given morning, we have many, many sets of these vocal symbols, called foreign languages.