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"We will be known as a culture that feared death
    and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
    for the few and cared little for the penury of the
    many."

4.
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

"Sometimes"

"Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible."

The ingredients for positive education: intellectual content, transformative, and calling.

More and more I get this feeling that Ali Smith is the evolution of Virginia Woolf. Poetic, in the moment, stream-of-consiousness, and surreal. Strange novel, but interesting. Moments of being.

This reads like young adult fanfiction (my apologies to those genres). There is one plot in which Patroclus is like a houseplant describing a painting on the wall. He is as dull, and his descriptions are excruciating. Nothing really happens except for ticking Freytag's Pyramid boxes. Ploughing on.