“history’s footprints threaded among the trees” (Kari Gunter-Seymour via SWWIM) or a history’s footprints threaded though this ixora.
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Category: language
New knowledge
One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge (TM).
Criticism, Lewis Theobald, declared in 1733, [have] three duties: “Emendation of corrupt Passages,” “Explanation of obscure and difficult ones,” and “Inquiry into the Beauties and Defects of Composition.” (ME in New Yorker)
The idea of paradise
The idea of paradise is no longer imaginable or, rather, it is over-imagined, which amounts to the same thing—and has therefore become familiar, commercialized, even trivial (TM).
Haiti Inter’s Fabrique littéraire presents Nat Turner
Preoccupations frame what we saw
On these long walks he did not forget his preoccupations. He used them to frame what we saw (ZS)
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Pleasure … can fortify us. The pleasure that is beauty, the beauty that is meaning, order, calm. Orwell found this refuge in natural and domestic spaces, and he repaired to them often and emerged from them often to go to war on lies, delusions, cruelties, and follies.
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“forlorn hunger for certainties” “in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it’s time that’s absolute” Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor.
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