Mill drops the dreaded 'is this philosophy?' on Emerson.

'… an unspecified risk'

A special sort of imposition, playing a role and expecting the one you're playing for to play one in return.

Grammatical remark: 'to be experienced from the inside'.

Not ten pages in to the second volume of Sontag's journals, it's disappointing to find, in an editorial note (to 'Dexamyls'): 'a form of amphetamine on which SS became dependent for writing in the mid-1960s and which she used until the early 1980s'.

You imagine some writers being pure. Their acuity stemming literally from nothing else but looking, seeing, intently, carefully.

If you know that words can overflow, you won't think speaking just means 'communicating thoughts'.

'We do better simply to say the sentence and so speak not about language but about the world.'

'We cannot therefore be sure we have any real knowledge.'

Lou Reed graffiti on a building's back wall.