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Every sentence is entitled to structural freedom.
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
Every sentence could have been otherwise but isn’t.
Verlyn Klinkenborg • Several Short Sentences About Writing
Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of liber... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend on It
Minott is, perhaps, the most poetical farmer—who most realizes to me the poetry of the farmer’s life—that I know. He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as if he loved it. He makes the most of his labor, and takes infinite satisfaction in every part of it. He is not looking forward to the sale of his crops or any pecuniary profit, but he is p
... See moreHenry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
