“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
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“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.” -Sarah Manguso
More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.
– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz
The meaningful middle is where everything that matters actually happens.