What I have discovered, quite recently, is the solution to the problem of unreadable writing. In my reading in various places I have observed the strange phenomenon that sometimes something long and intricate, and even interesting, is impossible to read, and other times something similarly long and intricate is entirely easy to read, and I have been trying to figure out why that is so. I didn't figure it out until I drifted into a habit - I know I got the idea from my reading, but I didn't realize what the idea was until I started to do this thing - the habit of writing about not only my thoughts, but how I arrived at them. Since I am writing mostly about my thoughts, without this context, there was no narrative, and this made my writing unreadable. I could tell. I believe this expedient does work. My feeling is that my writing, now, even though it is so arcane, and so more than ever personal, is readable. I don't think this is just because it's my writing. I think it's actually true.
Can you and I, or myself and others, actually discuss things via this medium, that is, by one of us sending off some paragraphs, perhaps densely constructed, and then, after a pause, receiving some paragraphs in reply, and then responding with more paragraphs, or, as Dijkstra might put it, [send, receive ...]? But here, that, is, there, where this originated, and where that originated, I am finding myself feeling that ... I mean, the question arises, when I have a thought, for example "can I get this into the writing? It possibly won't do to make it just a notation, but where do I put it in the whole developing body of notations? Can I figure that out, here, as I'm having the thought, or, even more improbably, later some time?" And then I find myself feeling that, improbably, I think I can.
