reading, taking note of it

file under: thing accomplished that helps maintain sanity::::managed to read a bit of moyra davey's essay "notes on photography & accident" and eleni sikelianos's "poetics of the exclamation point" (from an onedit issue, circa 1995!)

barthes quoted in davey:
"When a certain amount of time's gone by without any note-taking, without my having taken out my notebook, I notice a feeling of frustration and aridity. And so each time I get back to note-taking (notatio) it's like a drug, a refuge, a security. I'd say that the activity of notatio is like a mothering. I return to notatio as to a mother who protects me. Note-taking gives me a form of security."

and one of the sikelianos poems: