Fuzzy
Suns rise & set, but for us there’s one brief day and one perpetual night. So kiss me a thousand times.
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
19-TICH
5 Replies
18-FORT
Quenching
Mark Singer: Is there anything you’ve been able to draw upon, David? Is there comfort in the past?
David Milch : I feel the past falling away and the attachments of regret for what wasn’t done or was done badly or was done without sufficient sympathy, and it was for that reason that our granddaughter’s visit was such a redemptive and compelling occurrence. Everything is an adventure for her and a delight and a surprise, an opening up, and that’s a big gratification.
Mark Singer: I’ve never thought of you as a sentimental person, but maybe I misread that. How would you characterize yourself?
David Milch: As an unsentimental person.
Third Act by Mark Singer (New Yorker May 20, 2019)
17-MEAN
Hypothetical
Supposing that dreams have any meaning at all and that this meaning can be proved, is it worth while, in any individual case, to look for the meaning?
Dream life amplifies & compensates for the good encountered in previous days, AND those aspects of reality that are bad experiences.
16-BONK
Impact
At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the human soul:
one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it;
the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man’s power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events.
Therefore, better to disregard what is painful till it comes.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
15-PETE
Regarding
Passion needs to be cultivated.
What is the best thing you can think of? Let your natural passion for existence extend to include that.
P.S. You are more likely to think of something better while you are doing something productive rather than while you are “just waiting”.
Rebirthing by Leonard & Laut
14-DASH
Modernization
I think that the BBC’s attitude toward the show while it was in production was very similar to that which Macbeth had toward murdering people:
- initial doubts
- cautious enthusiasm
- greater & greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking
and still no end in sight.
Douglas Adams about the creation of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
13-KEYS
Supporting
Great achievements once considered impossible were accomplished with the help of other people (and other animals).
12-MUSE
Viewpoint
Downtown in the last century was characterized as an industry hub. Since the pandemic, remote work has isolated people.
New lure for cities are the central social districts. Restaurants, coffee shops, and coworking spaces add robust connectivity to a city’s economy.
