An Essayist's Notebook

Here are his conclusions...

• You are interested in relations unfolding through time, not isolated things. • You tend to ask “What has become visible here?” rather than “What is it?” • You are engaged in a continuing re-evaluation, where later experiences can change the significance of earlier ones. • In essays, you typically begin with a tension and seek to recast or reperceive it. • The goal is not resolution, explanation, or closure, but disclosure: allowing something previously unseen to become visible. • You generally prefer dialectical exploration to scholastic categorisation or conclusion-seeking.