THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C. . Page A1S The abnormal writer Writers, in my limited but appropriate experience, are not particularly normal people. Often enough, we’re not even likeable. We are an egoistical and sanctimonious lot. We consider ourselves beyond reproach, but others fair game for every manner of attack. We believe what we have to say is worth reading uncritical- ly, but what others say or write barely. worth the time it demands. Our attention spans are short, and the things that do attract us are often shallow. The worst of us are inexcusably lazy. We're autistic. It’s the texture of the words and sentences, the way they mesh and grind, that really attracts us. If we are accused of oversimplifying, sensationalizing. or. twisting the truth, it is because of all these things. But these things aside, most of us write for the right reasons. It’s desire. Writing is like eating: necessary to sur- vive. It’s justin us. - We’re romantic fools who hope beyond hope that our words will nudge us and others to a spot far above the mortal quagmire mucking our boots, day in and day out. Writing is therapy; I will never need a psychiatrist. Our purpose is noble, and the best of us, on a good day, ; will achieve the noble. What I’ll never totally understand is how it all started in the first: place. Was I born with this disease or did I pick it up from the water some place? When I think these thoughts, I:remember. | remember my mother trudging down the driveway one snowy Christmas. She wears a greenish overcoat on her trek under the sparse, dying nut tree that arches across the drive. There’s a smile on my mother’s face, because she’s saved money for a present she knows my sister and | will love. She’s proud and she’s awaiting the happiness she’ll. bring two teenagers. I can’t really see the smile yet, because the driveway is long, my ‘mother is still far from the house, and her face is tilted . downward..as she carefully but determinedly chooses her. path. “But I know she is smiling. I can feel it in the anxious way she walks, in the way she carries herself this day. : . “Isa typewriter,” my sister sighs. ‘‘I wish she’d gotten. us something else.’’ The moment will never leave me. =. "e - Something collapses inside my chest. 1 can feel the tears but. ~ > Lwon’tlet them come. — I am not going to let my ‘sister’s disappointment hurt my : mother. And pate is no hurt worse than this type of hurt, 1: know. : ‘Sol decide i will like’ the portable Smith and ‘Carona. typewriter enough’ for both children. : don’t remember anything else about that day: 7 “And.I don’t know. whether that day-has anything to do with ™ = ‘my chosen career. ‘Perhaps it just reflects the type of ‘Person. ] . “am; and today. | use it:to re- -enforce the type of person: lam... 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