Workbook / October 27, 2023 Workbook “No to transcendence and spiritual values, heroic scale, anguished decisions, historicizing narrative, valuable artifact, interesting visual experience.” ~Robert Morris Rebuilding the ship mid-ocean. It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professionally for three and a half hours every day for 330 days. That was why, despite her disabilities, Virginia was able to produce so very much. The “purposive” man is always trying to secure a spurious and delusive immortality for his acts by pushing his interest in them forward into time. He does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam to-morrow and never jam to-day. Read More0
