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There’s a Russian saying about nostalgia: “The past is more unpredictable than the future.” It’s so common for people’s memories about a time to become disconnected from how they actually felt at the time.
Collab Fund • A Message From the Past
the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.
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“And I think it was memory that saved us. You see, we have already known that
Adam Nossiter • ‘Memory Saved Us’: How France Blocked the Far Right
“Gathering, for Le Guin, is not a masculine, techno-utopian process of disruption or of moving fast and breaking things, but the methodical, deep labor that comes from "looking around, rather than looking ahead,"
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Fiction’s abyss is si-lence, nada. Whereas nonfiction’s abyss is To-tal Noise, the seething static of every particu-lar thing and experience, and one’s total free-dom of infinite choice about what to choose to attend to and represent and connect, and how, and why, etc.
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
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That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
Farnam Street • This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
There are those, of a psychological bent, who would sa y t hat we are obsessed with time . They can point to individuals in American culture who are li terally time-ridden. And even the rest of us feel very strongly about time because we have been taught to take it so seriously. We have stressed this aspect of cu lt ure and developed it to a point ... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
Edward Hall
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options.
This is Water - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College
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"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)