What *is* Rosslyn Redux? What have I been creating over the years? Is it a prolegomena for a book? Would a book be a way of introducing readers to historic rehabilitation writ large? And adaptive reuse? Or have I been creating something altogether different from a blog or a book? A wind whipped passel of field notes? An art/artifact exhibition? Daily Munge blooming into some sort multimodal art exhibit? Recently I’ve begun to wonder if everything that has come before, like years of therapy, is simply prolegomena for an epistolary relationship with Rosslyn, an epistolary memoir or an epistolary novel or… Dear Rosslyn!
“I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.”
— Jeff Nunokawa (Source: “‘Note Book’ Author Jeff Nunokawa Talks Literature In The Age Of Facebook”, By Claire Fallon, May 26, 2015, 10:14 AM EDT, Updated Dec 6, 2017, 10:20 PM EST, HuffPost)
I love Nunokawa’s perspective. It inspired me to buy and read his Note Book. And I agree with him wholeheartedly.
I’ve come to appreciate this relationship between book and… and what. Website is the easy answer. Blog. Collection. Digital exhibit. Open studio. Notes…
For now I’m allowing the possibility that the ultimate creation will be at least twofold, and that a book might prove to be prolegomena for the notes.
What do you think?