Isobel Sollenberger—on a verge which is always sustained.

Our mindlessness

It's as if Kurt Vile and his band have some recollection of rock music—exuberant, surging, joyful swaggering noise—but recognize that they, we, now, cannot just have that, do that; what works instead, for now, is measured, deliberate.

The image of a person alone with a book; one way of picturing philosophy.

A person keeping a journal is alone with a book, too. But then, not just a book being read; a book being written.

And not even being read, at least not like any other book. Your journal is never just a book.

And not even in the way that a book you write is not just any book.

'… how texts create community through their capacity to coordinate and couple minds.'

'In some ways…'

One O'Clock Jump.

Steam from a mug.

'Why not just say straight out: Your money or your life!'