When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I’m trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It’s a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. “I was attacked by a bear!” to “Goddamn bear tried to kill me!” to “That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!” and so on.
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| — | David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (via fables-of-the-reconstruction) |
Well—but I want to be secure, Father. I hate feeling insecure.”
“But you don’t love security enough so that you guide your life by it, Meg. You weren’t thinking of security when you came to rescue me with Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which.
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| — | A recently discovered early draft of A Wrinkle in Time sheds new light on Madeleine L’Engle’s political thinking. (via nationalbook) |
We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
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| — | Madeleine L’Engle (via observando) |
Van Tromp, going about to please his masters, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1844. Tate Gallery, London.
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