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In defence of being bored
We have eliminated the last unfilled minute of the day and called it progress. Nearly everything worth thinking was thought in one of those minutes.
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Positions that reliably empty a room, argued properly. Not for the heat — a view nobody defends in public is usually one nobody has examined in public either, and the examination is the part worth reading.
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The moment a thing you love acquires an audience, it acquires a quota. Some things should stay unmonetisably bad.
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Against the morning routine
Optimising the first four hours of consciousness is not discipline. It is a way of never being asked what the other twenty are for.
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Nobody owes you their trauma
Somewhere between confession and content, we started demanding the worst thing that happened to a person as the price of hearing them at all.
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