More Things Should Be Thought Out Thus
How to describe a text that tells the tale of a lifetime through short snapshots of moments; each moment meant to capture an eternity?
This book is a piece of creative writing that attempts to do exactly this; to convey the evolution of a lifetime via a collage of captured moments. And in each moment, we discover something about our own lives also.
About the Author
More Things Should Be Thought Out Thus blends experimental styles of writing and storytelling. Zion hosted a book launch in May 2010 in Exeter, Devon.
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Contact the Author
Zion can be written to at zio dot lights at gmail dot com
Reviews of More Things Should Be Thought Out Thus:
teensreadtoo.com
They lov-ed/e/are loving.
More things should be thought out thus captures the life trajectory/intimate story of two people falling 'in love'. The moments shared are a representation of our own moments (I smiled and nodded in acknowledgement of similar safe familiar remembrances). This well crafted journey takes you on an exponential travelling experience; meandering around circles and purple flowers, guitar music, train and travel, soya milk, mathematics and cushions. This stream of constructed consciousness is a delightful abandoned collection of interjections, reminiscences, future desires, past discoveries, present longings and understandings (ditto to all our lives). The delicious Zion has captured the essence of the day-to-day falling in life/love/lust – all same, but all different.
Using her words: ‘behind the mania is a moment shared and understood’.
And Zion’s words are an important contribution to modern lyrical literature. Words come from the soil, where all sound/idea/life has its beginnings. The word can become a mosaic; trying to go back to the tribal; incoherent but sensical – is that an oxymoron? Language is a product of the sedimentation of languages of former eras.
I sat in bed today reading Zion’s words – the focus on me in my bed, little me sitting in the world of Zion’s mind. Me; small and infinitesimal but realising that life/the world is so much greater.
After reading Zion’s words today I thought... I wanted to write, I was inspired.
I thought: I wonder how others will read Zion's words? What will they gather? What will they gain? What insights will they stumble across? So, this offering will be read in a myriad of complex/simplistic ways. (We are faced with a dichotomy; some readings are true/some are false – but all are valid?). I am thinking things through because more things should be thought out... (smile) …thus.
Read this work… it is inspiring. I am waiting for the next chapter – what happens next? More of the same, or different?
I wait.
Belinda Harris-Reid