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It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement with other people are set for us by the discourse, whatever that is. And, I mean, on my less generous days, I go with it just like anyone else. The same as ordering a Lyft or ordering a hamburger because I don’t want to cook. The convenience of our moment recreated in not just our art but also our human discourse and human congress.
Massachusetts Holy Ghost - By Brandon - Sweater Weather
blgtylr.substack.com
The Field of Centers analysis is a way of mapping out what has a strong presence on the site (large trees, nice houses and views, the volumes of connected street and front yard space), what’s more latent or has potential to become strong, and what is weak and needs repair. In other words, the spots that feel good and the ones that don’t feel so good.
Studio Project #3: A House for Oneself
Jack Cheng
As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved. It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it—and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence.
String Theory
David Foster Wallace
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