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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.

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Quotes / October 26, 2023

Minimalism

I will tell you a secret.
They can’t threaten you
with starvation, if you learn not to eat.
~Carolyn Gage

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Quotes / October 21, 2023

Quantum

Time is the substance I am made of.
Time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the river;
it is a tiger which destroys me but I am the tiger;
it is a fire which consumes me but I am the fire.
~Jorge Luis Borges

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