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trees grow up by repeating themselves over and over as they get taller

"At the same time, no part of me wants to read journalistic takes on art. When I read about art, I want to read about its movingness to an individual human being, and the ways that the individual has continued to digest it over time."

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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what's happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there―with your eyes open―and lived to see it.

| Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

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time spent writing is never wasted
by C. C.
82 blocks • about 1 month ago

I wonder why we write at all
These trees have seen all this before
But they are glad of an encore

Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer

The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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