Sublime
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I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
The mind is in a dayless freak zone, surfing earth’s hurtling horizon.
Samantha Harvey • Orbital: Winner of the Booker Prize 2024
a meditative yet exuberant journey through the world within and the world without, inspired by the Japanese notion of tsuumogami : the soul, or spirit, that inanimate objects are believed to acquire after being of service in the world for a hundred years.
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
“I didn’t want to lose anything. That was the main problem,” Sarah Manguso writes on the opening page of Ongoingness , her short book about learning to let herself forget things . She long fears being “lost in time,” until finally she realizes (as I’ve quoted once before), “the forgotten moments are the price of continued participation in life.” In... See more
#220: When forgetting is good
