You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.