In that respect, the movie marked a narrative angle that Linklater has repeatedly returned to: the personal historical present, a kind of Polaroid of the moment developed by a man farther along in time. We’re meant to be fully immersed in the world it portrays, but that world always exists relative to an offscreen future; we know where it leads, although the characters do not.
Moment To Moment | The New Yorker 8:38pm on October 21, 2017Their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 3:30pm on October 21, 2017Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 3:30pm on October 21, 2017Why should I leave instructions? The ashes will be my family’s, not mine, the scattering their mnemonic for the idea of me.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:28pm on October 21, 2017Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:28pm on October 21, 2017The trouble with setting goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:28pm on October 21, 2017After I submitted the final draft of my book about a train-track suicide, the art department produced sketches for my book cover: a needle and a long skein of red thread; a length of fluffy pinkish lace; a yellow hand mirror lying on a patch of green grass. I gave my editor a note for the designers, and the next day they delivered a perfect cover design: a photograph of the book’s subject, a man sitting on a train. This was the note: Pretend this book was written by a man.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:28pm on October 21, 2017Mothers must have sung to their babies before there was such a thing as music. I wonder what they thought of it, how they understood it, that singing.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:27pm on October 21, 2017If you can’t be with the one you love, my friend says, love the one who looks like the one you love. Other people call this having a type. It’s an expression of grief for an original loss.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:27pm on October 21, 2017It’s interesting to watch my friend speak carefully about what he thinks I’ll find interesting.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:27pm on October 21, 2017Some people love only those they can condescend to, those they can tenderly despise.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:27pm on October 21, 2017Faced with a camera lens, hideously overwitnessed, I immediately start trying to impersonate myself.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:26pm on October 21, 2017Talking with someone who reveals nothing, I hear myself madly filling the emptiness with information about myself.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:26pm on October 21, 2017It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.
300 Arguments: Essays by Sarah Manguso 3:26pm on October 21, 2017Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:26pm on October 21, 2017I never want to be where I cannot see it. All that energy and foolishness, all that curiosity, questions, talk, all those fierce passions, inconsolable sorrows, immoderate joys, seem to many a nuisance to be endured, if not a disease to be cured. To me they are a national asset, a treasure beyond price, more necessary to our health and our very survival than any oil or uranium or–name what you will.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:25pm on October 21, 2017The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, do what he can see other people doing. He is open, receptive, and perceptive. He does not shut himself off from the strange, confused, complicated world around him. He observes it closely and sharply, tries to take it all in. He is experimental. He does not merely observe the world around him, but tastes it, touches it, hefts it, bends it, breaks it. To find out how reality works, he works on it. He is bold.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:25pm on October 21, 2017By now the art or science of giving complicated instructions to incredibly quick but still stupid machines has become the giant field of computer programming.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:25pm on October 21, 2017All my fantasies did for me–no small thing–was to keep alive a feeling that the world is in many ways a fascinating and beautiful place.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:24pm on October 21, 2017The two processes are, after all, the same; as we move farther and farther into the world, we take more and more of it into ourselves.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:15pm on October 21, 2017