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My first thought about art, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before and that he does it without destroying anything. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.
—John Updike

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

I embrace idleness

I embrace idleness like the proverbial drunk, yet it is not the dulling lure of alcohol or the reverse stimulant of inaction that intoxicates me. What, then? The exercise of freedom? The pursuit of knowledge? of happiness?

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The Shattered Mirror, before becoming Webnesia.)

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