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I found an evangelical way out of evangelicalism

I should be clear that I do not mean to present myself as a scholar of the evangelical movement, but as a primary source. I am not just an observer of the evangelical mind, but an example of it. While some may question my ability to speak from the evangelical perspective as an apostate, I would con…

—p.26 n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex The Evangelical Mind (25) by Adam Kotsko
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to reframe what is considered mad

In 2016 we knocked on doors for Sanders and, like many thousands of others, were liberated and transformed by his campaign. Sanders’s long-standing rhetorical ploy has been to reframe what was taken for granted (a private insurance market for health care) as itself a form of madness and to reframe …

—p.5 Spectacle of Participation (1) by n+1
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I watched youth slip away

The Earth revolved on its axis. The Earth spun around our sun. Do you ever feel that you're caught in a spiral? Or that you are the spiral, and that what we call 'right now' is the tip o a stylus, travelling round and round? I did the things people do. I made a little money, I watched youth slip …

—p.242 Freeman's: Power Repeats (239) by David Mitchell
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lots of things in the world we don't understand inspo/interiority

No, I told not a soul. I may have been only ten years of age, but even I knew that confessing to being spied upon by a snazzily dressed senior citizen who flitted into and out of reality was not a clever move. My adolescence came and went, but still I felt no need to 'explain' the Watcher to myself…

—p.241 Repeats (239) by David Mitchell
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the foundry workers stood around with beers cracked

When I emerged, the studio was empty. Everyone presumably retired to the plastic marquee for dinner, leaving behind a woeful little army of clay humanoid stalagmites. At the foot of the gantry, repelled by the clinking of glassware and laughter, I slipped back towards the back of the workshop, wher…

—p.222 Ways of Being Seen (205) by Josephine Rowe