bobbie_louise_hawkins raze "why does anyone write except to speak of those things that conversation will never elicit — what is closest to the heart. and to speak of the personal with some accuracy, in the proper setting. and to have finally and for once the statement of the thing, dear thing, caught out of the void, caught onto paper. to be there at least as real as what usually happens, namely that we are so often misshapen by event, obscured by misunderstanding. why does anyone write except to say what presses closest to them — what matters." 240629 what's it to you? who go blather from