The book is called inciting joy essays, the word essay comes from a French word to mean to try to attempt. There's an essay, a swag love and who's really a model for those essays named Montaigne. They're just his sort of like wandering through some thinking and they are to me just beautiful. Do you know whether he edited? Did he go back and try and edit it? Or was it just like stream of consciousness and he drops it on you?

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