structure

Literature and architecture both possess structure. So do websites like this one.

In a very simplistic sense structure can be considered as an organising principle (among many other things, of course).

I have chosen a structure for this blog. Will this structure hold up under the weight of accumulating fragments?

I really don’t know. I certainly don’t need to know.

It just doesn’t matter, it has no bearing on my choice to work on the ongoing project.

Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa died aged 47 on Saturday 30 November 1935. Among his personal effects was a trunk containing more than 10,000 written fragments.

Some were dated; some were illegible.

Many more were both legible and undated.

These fragments have been translated and assembled several times into a composition called the Book of Disquiet. The first edition was not published until a symmetrical 47 years after Pessoa’s death.
Assembling fragments, as one can do in a blog, is a compositional action, a composing activity. This activity can be started and ended, but never concluded. The result can never be definitive, as the chronological order of publication is just one possible organising principle.

Nevertheless, it remains a form of creation – a method of production.

Something can be born out of this simple and trivial activity. The arrangement and assembly of found or made things, in order to discover something new.