What makes us think that philosophy must be a kind of work?

Snow.

Diurnalizing poetry?

Common places: the store, the office, the corner, the kitchen, the street.

'In my poetry a rhyme / Would seem to me almost insolent'

'… it is the common thing which is annonymously about us.'

In the really spectacular witness-stand breakdowns, defendants aren't just caught in lies or betrayed by their irrepressible passions, they're provoked to outpourings of murderous defiance.

'Don't get rid of art; get rid of social relations.'

Detectives question witnesses with a sort of repartee which tends to re-voice the witnesses' answers—for example to literalize them, or to insist on implicatures discretion would recognize but suppress.