I decided to enact the signment this week, in a small way. I can empathize with the pressure many are feeling to make this writing matter.

Haas reminds us that for Goody, Ong and Havelock, writing turns time into space. (This is also true for Bernard Steigler, incidentally.)

Instead, I decided to turn space into time with my writing. And then I thought, well, perhaps that’s always the case with writing. Isn’t it?

One hardly ever gets to use the word transmogrification. But here, yes. I think so: transmogrification.