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“The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that. The reader, we must remember, does not start by knowing what we mean. If our words are ambiguous, our meaning will escape him. I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open
... See moreI think of writing a lot like walking. It’s rarely the most popular, the most effective, or the most efficient way of getting to your destination. I don’t always want to do it, and it’s not always technically enjoyable; sometimes it’s boring or slow, sometimes it’s tiring and pointless, sometimes it’s cold or wet or windy and I’m retracing the same... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • Choosing to Walk
“Whenever I’m stuck, I ride the L or the Metra back and forth in order to feel the effortless passage of my body through space, to devote myself to looking without obligation.”
“Travel is generative even locally, even at the scale of the neighborhood.”
I treat my phone like poison. I leave the house as much as possible without it. After I had a kid, people were like, “What if there's an emergency?” Every fucking person on Earth has a phone. I'll ask the person sitting eight inches away.
Once you are released from the grip of your phone, you have like eight extra hours in the day and reading... See more
Once you are released from the grip of your phone, you have like eight extra hours in the day and reading... See more
Article
Let’s all look at the date of this tweet and acknowledge that I was not wrong, I was simply early
matcha, Vela scarf, and Dubai vlogs
quote of Quss b. Sa’idah:
https://archive.org/details/e3jaz-baqillani/page/n343/mode/1up?view=theater
I’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely... See more
The Ambling Mind
related to Ghazali quote about letting the aql walk free
