Unveiling the Untold Stories Behind Joni Mitchell’s Iconic Music in Paul Lisicky’s Riveting New Memoir
Music’s polarity reaffirms language’s polarity and contractions and vice versa. Lisicky discusses language’s polarity:
Language is unruly; language wants to mean ten things at once. That’s exactly what I found compelling about it. By contending with the process that unnerved me, I was making sure it didn’t dominate the person I tried to be. It was always steaming ahead of me, and it was my job to catch up.
Like music, language is compelling because of its contradictions and juxtapositions. For a writer of any genre or form, language’s rowdiness can either steamroll you or you can use it to create and think innovatively.
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