Joseph
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Joseph
Fiction’s abyss is si-lence, nada. Whereas nonfiction’s abyss is To-tal Noise, the seething static of every particu-lar thing and experience, and one’s total free-dom of infinite choice about what to choose to attend to and represent and connect, and how, and why, etc.
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
More on Total Noise
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
David Foster Wallace • This is Water
People of the Western world, particularly Americans, tend to think of time as something fixed in nature, something around us and from which we cannot escape; an ever-present part of the environment, just like the air we breathe. That it might be experienced in any other way seems unnatural and strange, a feeling which is rarely modified even when... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
Edward Hall Book
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options.
This is Water - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College
DFW, Water
The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials whether fair or unfair—constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment. It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be... See more
The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Division of Knight Newspapers, Inc., Appellant, v. Pat L. TORNILLO, Jr.
The Free Speech We Need
The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials—whether fair or unfair—constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment. It has yet to be demonstrated how governmental regulation of this crucial process can be... See more
Rereading “Editorial Discretion”
The Free Speech, from Berger.
“An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer,”