The Shape of What's Missing
By Sonny Saggar
Manuscript in development · Working title · No publication date announced
An empty glass, a missing piece, an absent person. How can what is not there shape everything that is?
A place to begin
An empty chair is still a chair. Its meaning changes when somebody was expected to occupy it. The absence depends on what you expected.
A question worth arguing with
When does absence become evidence, and when does it reveal an expectation?
Try this
Describe one missing thing without naming it. What clues make its absence visible?
This is a new introductory companion to the proposed book’s subject, not an extract from a completed manuscript.