What would he say to her, if he was going to speak truly? He didn't know. Talking was like throwing a baseball. You couldn't plan it out beforehand. You just had to let go and see what happened. You had to throw out words without knowing whether anyone woud catch them -- you had to throw out words you knew no one would catch. You had to send your words out where they weren't yours anymore. It felt better to talk with a ball in your hand, it felt better to let the ball do the talking. But the world, the nonbaseball world, the world of love and sex and jobs and friends, was made of words.
Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Since I saw the movie, I have found it difficult not to see Trojan horses everywhere. We live now in a state of perpetual distrustfulness
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through
to you."
-Mortimer J. Adler
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~ P Picasso
Why Handwritten Grocery Lists Outperform Every App
RIFTLY: and What That Says About How Memory Actually Works – “You’re standing in the kitchen, trying to remember whether you need tinned tomatoes. Your phone is in your pocket, loaded with a shopping list app that syncs across devices, sorts by aisle, and checks items off with a satisfying animation.
You ignore it.
You grab a pen and the back of an envelope and start writing: milk, eggs, tomatoes, pasta, bin bags. The list will be illegible by the time you reach the supermarket. It will crumple in your pocket. You will probably lose it between the car park and the trolley bay. And despite all of that, you will remember more of what was on it than if you had typed the same items into your phone…”
