The Haunting Presence of an Infinite Self

Dear Living Dark reader,

“For a certain kind of writer—the writer subject to a vastly polar creative cycle of speaking and silence, with very long bouts of the latter—the dread of committing oneself is at least equal to the desire to be published or heard. I speak from experience.”

Those words are by me, from something I posted on social media a couple of years ago. Sometime in 2022, I realized that for several months I had been using Twitter in the same way that I have traditionally used my priva...