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free will is a last resort

And even in the realm of the aesthetic, your patience, you might wish to remind me, is for me a limit. With your patience in mind, I want to assure you that I haven’t digressed as far as I may seem to have, because a coordinate strategy, among the old philosophers, was to turn the problem on its he…

—p.178 n+1 Issue 27: Deep End Ward's Fool (171) missing author
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such is the magic of errors

[...] In those moments we can interrupt our speech and call attention to the word being used. It’s the birdsong. Or the appearance of a priest in a church when we’re only there to see the stained-glass windows. That moment in which we perceive another dimension to the thing we’re doing, the object …

—p.165 I Didn't Talk (155) missing author
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echt

he gives an echt-Dana quote

—p.126 Don't Be Scared Homie (111) missing author
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sometimes we have to do things without knowing

I understand, as much as a coddled civilian can understand anything — my rocks are pebbles, kicked up the slightest slope — that it must feel the most compelling thing in the world to continue to choose violence, to your drug dealer, your friends, your mind, your own body. But sometimes we have to …

—p.109 Old Ship (99) by Kristin Dombek
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that joy was some slight thing?

YOU WANT A PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLE to give you some motivation to get out of the bay in which you’re an old ship, rusting. You want the clarity, the rigor, and the strength of philosophy to give you a reason to do what you have to do next. But ever since I read your letter I have been thinking abou…

—p.105 Old Ship (99) by Kristin Dombek