A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
I remembered being impressed as a teenager with the first line from Dickens’s *David Copperfield:* “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” If I wrote everything down, if I tried to remember everything, would I push myself to the side in my own story?
The Egg of Experience
Rob Horning
Surely there could be a more indigenous life than we have. There could be a consciousness that would establish itself on a place by understanding its nature and learning what is potential in it. A man ought to study the wilderness of a place before applying to it the ways he learned in another place.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
We are attempting to provide tentative situations that may be manufactured by the activities of the present. For without any clear body whose responsibility it is to measure, evaluate, and interrogate the effects of the world today on the people of tomorrow, the burden falls on us.
Vital Signals
Ken MacLeod, Simon Ings, Geoff Ryman, Jule Owen, Frances Gow, Tim Maughan, David Gullen, Dan O'...