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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -- Marge Piercy, For the young who want to in The Moon Is Always Female. Take an ax to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi, Quietness |
[Update at 1834: Another perspective brought to my attention by she who Writes Likes She Talks. I don’t know how to talk about what is happening here but it’s probably less about writers’ block than readers’ block. It says so much about the state of our discourse that the surest way to enrage everyone is [...]
Obama and the End of Decline Hmmm… Truthdig seems to have lost my comment (as well as a number of others)…
1745: Thomas Jefferson and slavery Update — 19 October at 1128: And then there’s the takedown: Henry Wiencek is not at all conflicted. He loathes Thomas Jefferson. In Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, his attempted takedown of the man, the third president appears as a demonic figure warped one summer day [...]
0742: Woolf tours Ireland I asked Adam Harvey last evening why it is that the ony ethnic/national group honored as a sport mascot is the Irish. He went to Notre Dame. He didn’t know.
0659: Are You Listening Ohio? It’s Me, Washington
0950 Dad-Dad (I went lookin’ myself, but the googles didn’t have a clue…)
Cavana Faithwalker writes: Chilling is the idea that if Mr. Obama had no active resistance and was able to shift things at will we in America and world wide would still be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Until we common folk see the game for what it is and decide to exercise our [...]
0803: Paul Ryan was for Ayn Rand before he was against her
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