Journal 54: Literature and Death

You can't arrest an idea, you can't destroy and idea, nor can you stop and idea. Writing literature is a way of expressing one's opinion, just as what art does. Art, music, or literature are all a form of expression. These are representation of an idea portrayed onto a physical object. It doesn't matter if the thing survived history or was it preserved well. All that matters in the end is that the idea lives on, people had seen it before and the person that created the representation remebers the idea. Once the idea is created, nothing, can stop it from spreading. Writing something is a way of recording yourself in the vast tsunami called earthquake. A person can be washed away easily, what your achievements are doesn't matter. If the future don't know about it, you will soon be forgotten. When you have written something down, people will read the thing no matter what it is. Its a recording, a piece of you that was saved down. Therefore, this is the reason why i like to read actual books. When you type something out, it loses the spiritual value of a person devoting himself to record something down individually with a character, or art. Written words are a form of art work, and it is the process of writing and recording yourself where a person could feel himself right there, at the moment, the creating his own history.