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).
The idea of paradise
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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ingrains floral embellishments
The purple stain, […] ingrains floral embellishments, inhabits longed-for gardens.
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Related: place to stand and stare.