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Collected quotes, 5 of n
We’ve been losing too many good people this year. Within a little more than a week of each other, bell hooks and Joan Didion both passed away — staggering losses in a time that’s already taken far too much. Both of these writers have shaped so much of my perspective on the world, so I…
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Pandemic playlist, part two
The second year of the pandemic has dissolved so many of the certainties and constants that structure everyday life. Hours and days bleed into each other; half the time, I’m hard-pressed to remember what month it is, let alone what the point of my various daily endeavors are. In the middle of this boundless, inchoate…
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Collected quotes, 3 of n
Geometry has nothing to do with it. It’s all about finding perfection, and perfection can’t be found in something as rigid as geometry. You have to find it elsewhere, in between the lines. Agnes Martin. as quoted in this newsletter I have had to learn how to manage — to be a functioning person while…
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Pandemic playlist
What kind of music will fill up the dead air of an interminable year? If I knew, maybe 2020’s playlist wouldn’t have turned out as desultory as it is. This post is coming a month too late, but the past few months have left me with far too little sleep to lose over abandoned personal…
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Not a Gamer: Tiny Echo
In Tiny Echo, you play as a one-eyed entity wandering the bowels of a blighted land, delivering mail to spirits.
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