Word from the wise...

"The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalised, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much..." -Marlon Brando

Efface...Expunge...Erase...Delete...Rub Out...Wipe Out...Obliterate.

'As every humanities undergraduate now knows, Barnes in his famous 1967 essay The Death of the Author, declared that writing is a kind of self-annihilation or death - not an act of self discovery or self expression, not a covenant with immortality. Or to put it in Nabokov's terms, one writes not with the graphite at the nub of one's pencil, but with the eraser on the other end...'

Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Play - Thomas Karshan.