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My God, I just remembered that we die. —Clarice Lispector
“Nobody thinks of now as the future past.”
Dying. It feels like such a throwaway to just die for no reason. To waste your one good death.”
It’s so exactly what I’ve been wanting to write about, how to make a death useful.
Victims die, that’s their main verb.
When asked about the difficulties of sculpture, Michelangelo said, “It is easy. You just chip away all the stone that isn’t David.” It’s simple to
Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good.
The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything,
