Lauren Crichton
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Lauren Crichton
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Red Hand Files
If I was a bird, what bird would I be? Am I a cottage with a wraparound porch or a mansion? What about colour: blue, pink, lemon? Would I be a pearl earring or a hoop? A pine tree or an oak? A lake or the Mediterranean Sea?
All a girl wants is to be described
In this slog of a late-capitalist world, too much tedious work has cut off people from their passions. What can we be interested in, or curious about, when we are exhausted? Mothers bear a double burden here. How to dream when you don’t get enough sleep? It’s nearly impossible but it’s not impossible. You are still there, under the rubble, maybe,... See more
Passion or Process?
Because what’s demonstrated here is that tasteis actually a function of all kinds of contextual information, including information wholly extrinsic to the thing itself. (This is why wack people can ruin something you love.) There is no purely inherent value that exists in a vacuum, separate from cultural information. Context is always... See more
Masked and anonymous
David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
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Questions to ask your friends
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The dawn of the post-literate society
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