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The Blank Sheet Paradox

Writing Infinity

Ricky Lanusse
2 min readFeb 21, 2023

Writing is good for me.
But I wonder: why is it good for me?

I discovered then that a blank page is the mightiest thing in the world. There is even more: a blank sheet is mightiest than the world itself.

On a blank sheet, I can fit all the worlds.
I can shape them at my whim.
I can be me, I can be another, I can do and be whatever I want.
God and devil, and everything in between.

Then, not only did I discover the true magnitude of a blank sheet of paper
but I found that it is the only place where my mind is
totally

free

.

That’s why it is good for me to write: I am my own sovereign of my self-created world.
I write on one side and on the other side of the page.
I can invent a world on one page and a world on the other.
I can be someone different in each of those worlds or the same one in both worlds.

This led me to think that if there is a world on one side and another
on the other side, between those worlds, there is a

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Ricky Lanusse
Ricky Lanusse

Written by Ricky Lanusse

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