Note: These are my overdue reflections, epiphanies, and mindfucks making it to the 48th National Writers Workshop, to be held from May 4 to 15 at Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. – Marocharim
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The syntagma is an element of a narrative with respect to time. To make a syntagma, you draw from a pool of possibilities; you draw from a paradigm. It’s an analysis of a surface and a structure with respect to repetition and recurrence.
Algorithms are a sequence of instructions with respect to the shortest time to finish them. Algorithms are either determined beforehand, or result from a possibility. They are always well-defined; that you know what you’re doing, or if you don’t, you know where you’re going.
Writing, to me, is a syntagmatic algorithm.
