Will Harrison
Will Harrison
attempt bargain believes foot fulfill great survey
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
believe recipes refuse trading tuna
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
american-writer illusions itself
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
awesome create depends future god image nobility ourselves responsibility
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
believe democratic directed government measures poor rich richer
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
american-president directed government measures poor richer
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
grief belief unhappiness
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
medicine soul fuel
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
memories venice magic
In memory Venice is always magic.
gay
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
soul priceless possession
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
rome lessons matter
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.