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An inspiration engine for ideas
met with but one or two persons in the course of his life who understood the art of walking, that is, of taking walks – who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering
Henry David Thoreau • Rêveries d'un Promeneur Averti
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
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Thoreau was a writer, and a re-writer. Walden went through seven drafts longhand.