Daniel Ginsburg
@dginsburg
Daniel Ginsburg
@dginsburg
Life is 10% what you make it, the other 90 is how you take it. - Aristotle maybe
“Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness
... See moreFar from being acts of literary grave-robbing, adaptations can be a way of keeping novels alive. With reading now an endangered pursuit, any spin‑offs that lead people back to the books are to be welcomed. Purists need not fear: the reputations of Austen and Brontë will remain unsullied. We should rejoice in the fact that they have sparked social media storms. Their work continues to be part of our cultural conversation – not confined to classrooms and lecture halls. We are still asking: “Who is Heathcliff?” “Does Emma live happily ever after?”
Science can, and does, get there eventually. It is just that the process is slow and laborious, and along the way dogmas can get stuck, and some people forget that that is all part of the process. But, that is all part of the process.