Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
I know it’s heresy, but I have to say, I’ve never really got the point of opera?” He says this comfortably. He says it as if, his whole square-chinned life long, he has been saying confidently stupid things, and the world has reliably responded by saying, good point, Rory old man.