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"It's not complicated, it's genocide"

Clarice Lispector, December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977.

Rebecca Solnit on climate as an expression of the mutuality that is the essential condition of our world, and its corresponding role as the most sharply divisive issue in our politics. Link to the full essay here.

Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

Brett Walker

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“You know,” my aunt says, “I once had a terribly difficult period that lasted twenty-four years.” Wait. Twenty-four years? “And it was so important to realize that I didn’t know what was on the other side of the darkness. Every so often there was a sliver of light that shot the whole world through with mystery and wonder, and reminded me: I didn’t have all the information.” ~ Dani Shapiro, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage (Knopf, April 11, 2017) [Thanks David Kannigan]