Writing, the work and play of writing, does not happen first of all as a cognitive act of problem-solving, as an act of self-expression, or even an act of creation or discovery of knowledge, though at times can be made to take on all these guises. Writing happens first of all as a hermeneutic process, as an event of disclosure. Wirting is a techne, an art, understood in its original sense of "a bringing forth” and it brings forth how, not what, things are and how things might be. More subtly, it brings forth allusions to what is conceivable but unrepresentable: The impossible, the other. (246)-- Lynn Worsham.
Oh, Lynn. Don't you know that what you really mean to say--especially in that last part--is that writing is the chora?
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