Anti mulled over this for a while. Then, ‘You know what, though? Didn’t Rushdie say that thing about the empire writing back? You could find inspiration there.’ She had Aristotle’s categorisation of human activities in mind, she said. ‘He distinguishes theoria, which increases knowledge, from praxis, which is action-for-itself. In between those two comes poiesis, which is action-for-making. Poiesis is creative. Make a film, paint, write a poem. Write back to Woolf.’
