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A dead, beautiful thing

Say, you find a dead thing. You look at it and say, ‘this is a dead thing’. You take it to your house on a collector’s impulse and put it under the tap. You wash the dead thing and you go, ‘holy moly, it’s gold.’

Now the dead thing is beautiful. You start thinking that if you also pair the gold with a diamond, then it will be something bigger, for sure.

We surround ourselves with cultural…

The question is the hardest, they say, and they are right. What I like to do with special decks that lend themselves to combining pragmatic concerns with the metaphysical ones is ask challenging questions – challenging not in the topical sense, but rather more so in the formal sense. Whereas a metaphysical concern can manifest in a question about one’s purpose in life, the pragmatic approach…