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turning dumb luck to smart luck
Lewis Hyde via Martin Shaw
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“A gentle reminder of the word ‘matutolypea’: grumpiness or downheartedness first thing in the morning. Based on Latin and Greek, literally ‘morning grief’, or ‘sorrow of the dawn,’” – Susie Dent.
Via Andrew Sullivan. This is so alien to my experience that I’m unlikely to add it to my vocabulary
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Quiddity was used almost as synonymous with homeliness (see the tertiary definition) by Michael Ward in After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.
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Realizing my body isn’t something I’m in but something I am is the heart of the case for reactionary feminism.
Mary Harrington in Feminism Against Progress, quoted by Helen Lewis. After clipping this quote, I read so much other detail about Harrington’s new book that it’s now living on my Kindle, waiting its turn.
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Being
plugged in The Free Press [is] the heterodox equivalent of a glowing New York Times review.
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Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via The Economist)
We are in the grip of a grim, despairing rebellion against reality that imagines itself to be the engine of moral progress.
The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world.
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