In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
I never really feel that I__ stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there__ no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it as a dynamic thing I mean a writers block, it__ a paralysis an immobility and the thing that has immobilized you is a very powerful force. Immobility is itself an act, it__ a choice. It can sometimes take as much energy to remain immobile as it does to be mobile. And if you think of it in a dynamic way then it__ freeze you from the sense that at some point your talent will simply abandon you and you__e just a vacant shell with nothing to say, I don__ think that ever really happens. But I think that terror, bad experience, trauma and so on can absolutely silence you.
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I never really feel that I__ stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there__ no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it as a dynamic thing I mean a writers block, it__ a paralysis an immobility and the thing that has immobilized you is a very powerful force. Immobility is itself an act, it__ a choice. It can sometimes take as much energy to remain immobile as it does to be mobile. And if you think of it in a dynamic way then it__ freeze you from the sense that at some point your talent will simply abandon you and you__e just a vacant shell with nothing to say, I don__ think that ever really happens. But I think that terror, bad experience, trauma and so on can absolutely silence you.
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