Sublime
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As I’ve written before, the speed of technology and the hyperconnectivity of society have placed us in a “never-ending now.”Like hamsters running on a wheel, we live in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption — a merry-go-round that spins faster and faster but never goes anywhere.Even the virtues of information consumption have changed.Mo
... See moreHis farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
the gentle mooing of the cows, the not entirely disagreeable smell of dung, they all briefly gave me the sense of – I wouldn’t say of having a place in the world, let’s not overstate the case – but of belonging to a kind of organic continuum, of animal regrouping.
Michel Houellebecq • Serotonin: A Novel
I falter with disease.
Time rushes toward me—
it has no brakes. Still,
the radishes are good this year.
Run them through butter,
add a little salt.
—Jim Harrison, “Zona”
> 185: Run them through butter
All of this demands a kind of Sabbath slowdown in the midst of our otherwise “efficient” and “productive” lives.30 To grow a garden is to inhabit a different economics.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
As I lowered the beam from my headlamp, it struck me that people in SoHo go through a lot more toilet paper than those up in the Bronx.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
For the most part, I minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.