Dylan Tweney
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Dylan Tweney
Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves
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Pied Beauty
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We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more
Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
Narrative is a stratagem of mortality. It is a means, a way of living. It does not seek immortality; it does not seek to triumph over or escape from time (as lyric poetry does). It asserts, affirms, participates in directional time, time experienced, time as meaningful. If the human mind had a temporal spectrum, the nirvana of the physicist or the
... See moreUrsula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
A writing journal is only a process by which one looks at life and a way with words and symbols, with the possibilities of image and story, or the unfolding of a sequence of rhythms and discoveries of feeling.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
The situation is unusual in that it’s entirely in Trump’s hands. The president can usually influence, but rarely control, economic challenges — a bank collapse, a housing bubble, a pandemic. In the current market rout, Trump is the cause. He imposed the tariffs, and he decides when they go.
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Unlike other complex pieces of policy — income tax changes
... See moreOur lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchell • Cloud Atlas
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
―
E.M. Forster,
Howards End
―
E.M. Forster,
Howards End
A quote from Howards End
“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
―
Edwin Markham
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
―
Edwin Markham