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a sense of progress: of going and getting somewhere.
Robin Sloan • Advice for newsletter-ers
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Richard • From fragments you can build a greater whole
The past stays and echoes even as modernity roars ahead.
Matt Haig • How to Stop Time
‘what is it that we want our tropes to do for us?’
Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
I begin rehearsing various opening lines I can use to impress Ai Imajo. I form the thought that reality is an unedited script performed once; that the truly untold tale is life itself. This seems extremely profound for about ninety seconds.
David Mitchell • Number9Dream: A Novel
‘Don’t be confused, Vikram,’ he said pleasantly. ‘Didier only has one subject—himself.’ ‘And his curse,’ Karla added quickly, ‘is that it is a fascinating subject.’
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Bicycle Diaries).