Familiaris

by David Wroblewski

“It is your first and last duty in this life,” he wrote, “not to be an idiot.”

“Motion is the remedy to every problem without a solution,”

Emerson: “Build, therefore, your own world.” Wasn’t that the most unthinkable thought of all? Because what it suggested, when you really, really looked at it, was that the only thing standing between what a person wanted and what a person got was acting on ideas no one else would even admit to having.

If I ever run into the man who decided that the past tense of “lay-as-in-recline” ought to be the same as the present tense of “lay-as-in-set-down” I’m going to put my hands around his neck and squeeze until he starts laying down standing up.