Sublime

Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠

I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. T

When you take away a common moral order and tell everybody to find their own definition of the mystery of life, most people will come up empty.

What the White South confronted in the movement era was a paradigm shift. There was a model for sustaining White supremacy: terrorizing Black folks, the dispassionate acquiescence of the White North and the federal government, economic control, and an ideological hold on its ranks managed by humiliation and cruelty. But a model only holds as long a

Science was bent, which always set him philosophizing.

If there was an inner circle of magicians, Grayson sat at the head of that table. Walt described him as “old school,” because he still believed secrets mattered. And although he was revered by fellow magicians, Grayson had a reputation for being an elitist, as well as being so secretive it bordered paranoia. He wouldn’t even touch a deck of cards i

And the kid smiled and pounded it out with the mayor, who stared back at him, a horrified look on his face, having realized a second too late who he was. The kid said, “Good to see you, cuz,” then turned and saw himself on the Jumbotron and waved to the crowd.