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difficult always, […] earn—by practice and careful contemplation—the right to express it and […] learn how to accept it (TM)

… live where words have no leverage—I’ve a pile 
of words.

… slipped off into his dream of choice … each detail was a jolt of pleasure

TM

Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit on Radio Open Source. This show first aired on November 11, 2021.

20:17 … he listens to a bird singing, and loves the fact that the bird is singing for no utilitarian purpose. Inutility is itself a kind of resistance this utilitarianism of an authoritarian state.

21:35 … Orwell is using the metaphor of the rose to make a point. And it’s a remainder that all that time in the natural world gives him and gives any of us metaphors, allegories, frameworks to understand the world around us. I often feel we’re really bereft without that metaphorical richness we get from the physical, spatial, and natural worlds.

By dint of hammer-song he makes his keen,

Raw point, and crowns utility with rose

The Rosehead Nail by A.E. Stallings

“In this place every true thing is okay.” (TM)

“traced the errant paths and the lines of flight” […] “encouraging you to dream” (SH)

“The inconvenience of the world is at its most confusing when one wants the world but resists some of the costs of wanting.” “Life can be different; it can be better or worse. Just not simple” (LB)

as the best parts of living have come
unsought and undeserved
inconvenient

Last Words, Rita Dove, in New Yorker.

Related : “… scenes that people say they want, are uneasy wanting, try to make do with, try to get at, go in and out of caring about, and want to be okay with.” On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant.