Kurt Vonnegut: “There Are Six Seasons Instead of Four”
‘We like to imagine that it's possible for life to be one eternal summer, and that we have uniquely failed to achieve that for ourselves, We dream of an equatorial habitat, forever close to the sun; an endless, unvarying high season. But life's not like that. Emotionally, we're prone to stifling summers and low, dark winters, to sudden drops in
... See moreMelancholy is a solitary pleasure and something I’ve been drawn to for as long as I remember. Certainly, it’s in my novels which are all, to some degree, romantic comedies about sadness and loss, a feature of the long walks, too, the reason why I don’t mind trudging through drizzle along the verge of a B-road or sitting in empty cafes on grey
... See moreHere’s what you get from the nomenclature, the metaphor, of the “season”:
Robin Sloan • Advice for newsletter-ers
Johnson wonders if some work, perhaps through some enlightened policies, might find inspiration in seasonality, instead of being “stamped out and standardized by the 9-to-5 monoculture of the Industrial Age.”
sentiers.media • Change of Seasons
It is officially the first day of fall. The leaves may have barely begun to turn, but, as Charlotte Mendelson reminds us, “ ’Tis the season of mist, nature’s Photoshop; trenchcoats; barley; licensed melancholy; munificence; and glorious rot.” It is a time when new growth ceases and gardens begin to wilt and shrivel. “After the hell of summer,
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