Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
We all think what we want is answers. We don’t, actually. Answers are dead things. Questions are animating. What we want is great questions.
By the time a question gets its answer, all of the juice has been squeezed. The answer is the pulp and pith. Answers are static things. Questions are kinetic.
By the time a question gets its answer, all of the juice has been squeezed. The answer is the pulp and pith. Answers are static things. Questions are kinetic.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time.
You can hope your family will examine the
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Cowboy Grass - D.S. & DURGA
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the scent that put them on the map, story of how they made it at home initially
Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Ah newthing, we think. I know what you are. Making you will be easy. The path is straight and sure. The newthing hears your boasts and does not react, but knows how much you have to learn. As you build the newthing you will discover that building a newthing is a strange act where the harder you go about trying to do it, the harder it becomes. It
... See moreLeave the newthing unattended too soon and you risk it serving purposes you did not intend and might not be in its best interests. Hold the controls too tightly and you risk denying the newthing what it wishes to be and where its purpose is best served.
When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good... See more
