2 Things on a 2sday

On this Tuesday that feels like a Monday, I offer you a couple of gems:

1. This quotation from May Sarton in Plant Dreaming Deep:

"I knew that tension well. It is just the same before I begin to write a book or a poem. It is the tension of being on the brink of a major commitment, and not being quite sure whether one has it in one to carry it through--the stage where the impossible almost exactly balances the possible, and a thistledown may shift the scales one way or the other."

2. This book...