Playground: A Novel
The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
The universe is a banyan, its roots above and branches below.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In place of explanation, memory.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
There’s work to do. Star-work, but earthbound all the same.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
the bedrock of human existence. Property and mastery: nothing else counts.