Right Writing

This chapter suggests that Orm finds an injunction to make writing the form of life, as if the making of the letters were itself a mode of devotion perfectible to the extent that writing could fill the activity of living. It implies that the principles of Orm’s method are embedded in practices and outcomes, and not explained in any conventional sense. It then attempts to explain how the writing of the Ormulum can be so impertinent, so brave, and so insightful, in two parts. The first part examines the ideas that caused Orm to shape the Ormulum’s lines and words in a unique way. The second part discusses how the ideas unfold into a remarkable poem. It also suggests that what Orm is doing is spelling rather than writing and it was done thru the process of deconstruction, careful teasing out of warring forces of signification.

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