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ballast
his imagination has no ethical ballast at all
notable
his imagination has no ethical ballast at all
in their counterpoint and syncopation and union, they make the rhyhtm of that novel
A frontier has two sides. It is an interface, a threshold, a liminal site, with all the danger and promise of liminality.
This, not coincidentally, is the same invidious rhetoric of superior virtue favored by the liberal’s adversary.