I find this habit of posting regular excerpts very satisfying, somehow, because I go back to authors I haven't looked at in a while, books I started reading but never finished, and it just feels... good. maybe I'll set up an LJ for this sort of thing. I was reminded of this story today: Anton Chekov's The Huntsman.A SULTRY, stifling midday. Not a
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an excerpt from the first chapter of GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday:"An artist is identical with an anarchist," he cried. "You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one burst of blazing light
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fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week), getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries, at ease, ( Read more... )