Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
he as an individual can live in dignity, even though he as a Negro cannot.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
a substantial number of persons with no discernible function at all.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
The US Urban System—Crime, Patents, and Incomes
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
If there are clear boundaries to behavior within a given field of endeavor, then there is also great freedom to adapt and imagine within those lines. These boundaries, however, should always be tested to see if they are actually still real. It takes conscious acts by individuals to test these edges.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
In a real sense this map became my method.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
If used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful of each other.1
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
truculent
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
that identifies
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
He had an alert look and manner; short, graying dark hair; a clear gaze, no hint of guile—an appealing, trusting guy.