(your letter) gave me food for thought which I’d like to share with you. Because I now believe I can better define, for myself, what kind of writer I am – pondering, monolguing, thinking aloud. It’s a part of my personality which I don’t mind exposing to the reader. There are a lot of questions which will probably never be answered but still have to be asked to make us grow. I believe that the questor is more intelligent and interesting than the guru because the questor can grow while the guru stops forever on his height; the fun is over.
I saw a Carlsberg ad: “Carlsberg – probably the best beer in the world.” Here, “probably” is a momentary stop, impact, charge. In this spirit, I introduce all my “evens,” “perhaps,” “ifs,” etc. let the reader see that I am struggling, stumbling and I invite the reader to struggle and stumble with me. Enough of gurus who usually are ridiculous and pretentious. Therefore, I propose that you accord generous space to those tremblings, questions, hesitations. We live in a time of quanta and relativity where there is no longer a place for straightforward answers for everything and let people know it. I invited my readers to struggle for answers and not to seek the easy straightforward ones served on a silver platter.
Unpublished letter from WM