For when thy labour doon al ys, For when your labour’s all doneAnd hast mad alle thy rekenynges, And you’ve made all the accountsIn stede of reste and newe thynges Instead of rest and other thingsThou goost hom to thy hous anoon, You go straight homeAnd, also domb as any stoon, And as dumb as any stoneThou sittest at another book Sit at another bookTyl fully daswed ys thy look. Till your eyes are fully dazed

‘Alas, this will never get anything done’ is a theme that recurs in severalnotebooks.

Moyers tells it in the first person: We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it. . . . You get one paragraph partly right, and then you’ll go back and work on the other part. It’s a different thing.

“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.” ― Terry Pratchett, Eric

poem Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Nolte. There are variations of it, but the first line is essentially: If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

“Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.”

“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.”

“Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.” (Psycho)

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

“I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.”

“I urge you with all sincerity to get to work, write a book, write two—three—four books, just as a matter of course. Don’t worry about ‘wasting’ an idea or ‘spoiling’ a plot by going too fast. If you are capable of turning out a masterpiece, you’ll get other and even better ideas in the future. Right now your job is to write, and to write books so that by so doing you’ll gain the experience to write still better books later on.” (Bloch in an August 27, 1947 letter to Ray Bradbury)

“So I had this problem—work or starve. So I thought I’d combine the two and decided to become a writer.”

“Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.”

“Evil exists everywhere. Sometimes I think our limited senses are designed to protect us from awareness of its presence. We trust them to provide us with knowledge but it may be that they block out realization of horrors we cannot bear.” (Night of the Ripper)

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

If all the digital power that it takes to type up a book could be gathered into one blow, it would probably knock a hole through the Empire State Building

Do I imagine it. Or he did one day actually say in response 00:37:59 to an answer. That's so far off. It isn't even wrong

I'm totally prejudiced as I work at a local typewriter repair shop in Bremerton, Washington. We also have a space where we sell them. In general if the local shop has a bunch of machines that you can put on a table to try out, that is good. If they don't want you futzing with the typewriters, I'm not sure the value. Do they have a warranty? If not, then stick to the internet and local antique shops and buy as low as you can. At least that way when you need repair you have a cost buffer.

Hindsight - I wish I could have just gone to a typewriter shop and bought just two or three machines (desktop standard, portable, and ultraportable).

You don’t see working class humor much anymore, except in standup.

Reasoning along similar lines, the historian Carl N. Degler asserted in 1991 that the struggle against Nazism had at last left social Darwinism “definitely killed, not merely scotched.”

In Social Darwinism in American Thought, the 1944 book that popularized the term, Richard Hofstadter writes that the ideology, at least “as a conscious philosophy,” had “largely disappeared” in the United States by the end of World War I, thanks to its uncomfortably Teutonic overtones.

last October, Jonathan Chait argued that the social Darwinist commitments Trump shares with the rest of the Republican Party distinguish it not only from the Democrats but “from conservative parties in other industrialized democracies.”

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said Mr. Trump had acted “without consulting Congress, without a clear strategy, without regard to the consistent conclusions of the intelligence community” that Iran had made no decision to take the final steps to a bomb.

when 17:54 I'm looking to add to my collection now 17:56 I want something a little bit different 17:58 and this this remette is that it's not a 18:01 portable it's not an ultra portable it's 18:03 really loud it doesn't have all of its 18:06 parts the top cover doesn't belong to it 18:08 and is Rusty there's a lot not going for 18:11 this machine but that's what I like 18:13 about it

Whenit becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroyitself.

A democratic assembly voting and amending a comprehensive economic plan clause by clause, as it deliberates on an ordinary bill,makes nonsense.

as Hemingway noted, “[Writers] are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

We poor schlubs out in the world don’t have teams of writers scripting our happy endings, experts caution — and so taking inspiration from rom-coms’ corny gestures just sets ourselves up for disappointment.

As the sociologist Niklas Luhmann put it, “Showing that one could control one’s passion would be a poor way of showing passion.”

It’s clear how relevant Hayek’s warnings remain today. Economic freedom—unlike in the 1980s and ’90s—is in retreat. Faith in “industrial policy” has come to dominate in China, the U.S. and Europe. At the same time, intellectual freedom is under threat as proponents of a woke ideology strive to politicize all of life. Mathematics is now considered “racist” by some, while freedom of speech is under threat. Opponents of economic freedom often oppose intellectual freedom as well.

In 1939, the philosopher Max Horkheimer, co-founder of the Frankfurt School, said: “But whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism.”

TAWNY Sam, have you heard of Andrew Hawkins? SAM No. TAWNY You funded his performance piece recently, which involved him destroying all his belongings outside a Starbucks in Haight-Ashbury. SAM I've done that a couple of times. But I didn't know there was funding available. TAWNY Yeah.

"I collect vintage typewriters. I like the sound and feel of the keys. There's something satisfying about having a thought, then seeing it on the page."

Q: Do you use a pen to write?A: Actually, I prefer a typewriter. I enjoy the sensation of sitting down and taking time to think about what I want to say and then, typing, which has a kind of physicalness to it as the imprint goes on the paper. It's also something that doesn't take batteries.

A house is not a home without a typewriter.

i couldn't 4:50 get into the typewriter the screws were 4:52 in there so tight that there was no way 4:54 i could get that bottom off of the 4:55 machine so i did the only logical thing 4:58 i could think of i set it upside down 4:59 and then forgot about it for a really 5:01 long time i then went back in once i got 5:03 the confidence to go into this machine

i don't know 4:26 how i fixed it i kind of stabbed it a 4:28 lot with a screwdriver until it worked

in fact almost 0:28 all of my successful repairs have come 0:30 from a lot of faith trust a little bit 0:32 of pixie dust and a lot of googling

The one on the cover of your book, the Hermes 3000, is that your favorite? Absolutely. It’s a rock solid portable. I have four of them. I also like the Hermes Rocket, Olympias, Olivettis. I use them constantly.

Alton Brown Verified accountSeptember 6, 2015  · Shared with PublicBehold the sublime Hermes 3000. Still my favorite writing device.

Forrester: No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!

I think my creativity is going to flourish when I get clean. There are so many songs I started and never finished, and I've wasted so much time while I've been using drugs. Even if I was at the typewriter I wasn't doing anything, I was just there. I was more likely to do a line off it than write anything, so I think now my creativity will blossom.

“I certainly didn’t gamble away every penny,” he wrote in a 1961 memoir. “… I drank some of it away, and I bought a raincoat.”

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw never said these words, but Charles F. Brannan did.

In his book The Public Domain, the copyright scholar James Boyle talks about the political salience of the term "ecology." Boyle recounts how, prior to the rise of the word "ecology," there were many standalone issues, but no movement. Sure, you care about owls, and I care about the ozone layer, but what does the gaseous composition of the upper atmosphere have to do with the destiny of charismatic nocturnal avians? https://thepublicdomain.org/thepublicdomain1.pdf The term "ecology" welded all these thousands of issues together into a movement. When I look at the incredible, organic, bottom-up surge of antitrust energy, the only explanation I can find is that something similar is happening here. Concentrated corporate power is the common enemy of beer drinkers, surgeons, shippers, patients, farmers, grocery shoppers, social media users, any anyone who wears sneakers: https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/learn/monopoly-by-the-numbers

On Sunday, when Willi Castro homered in a blowout Twins loss, Provus paid homage to Uecker’s home run call:“Castro in the air to right. Hey, get up, get up! Get outta here! Gone!” Provus said on the Twins TV broadcast.

Red Barber once stated, "I doubt if there are any two people, fans, writers or broadcasters, who keep score with identical symbols and systems. I do know that any fan who acquires the habit of scoring his own ball games will find that it adds much to his enjoyment of the pastime."

“Baseball’s like church. Many attend, few understand.” Leo Durocher

“White people embrace narratives about forgiveness,” wrotethe essayist and author Roxane Gay after the massacre, “so they

The “unit records” here, unlike those in the Memex example, are generally scraps of typed or handwritten text on IBM-card sized edge-notchable cards. These represent little “kernels” of data, thought, fact, consideration concepts, ideas, worries, etc., that are relevant to a given problem… Each such specific problem area has its notecards kept in a separate deck, and for each such deck there is a master card with descriptors associated with individual holes about the periphery of the card. There is a field of holes reserved for notch coding the serial number of a reference from which the note on a card may have been taken, or the serial number corresponding to an individual from whom the information came directly (including a code for myself, for self-generated thoughts).

It is hard to find an old technology that is not available in any form any where on earth.

we would sit in a 1:14 seminar room and take this thing that 1:15 was embodied unique and implicit and 1:18 turn it into something disembodied 1:20 generalized and explicit and therefore 1:23 destroy it

“In the beginning, it was like, ‘Oh, thank goodness, our house is standing, but this is hard to celebrate because everybody around us lost their house,’” Lambert says. “Then as the time went by, every day you’re realizing there’s more and more unknowns. It’s not as simple as, ‘There was a fire, it’s gone, clean your house, go back.’ It’s so much more complicated.”

Pepys looked at the megaliths in 1668 and shrugged: ‘God knows what their use was.’

Daniel Defoe​ , in his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), was unimpressed by the prehistoric remains. Arriving at the circle of nineteen standing stones at Boscawen-Un in Cornwall, he noted with baffled irritation that ‘all that can be learn’d of them is, That here they are.’

“The library, panels and boxes formed the ensemble of supports on which Aby Warburg’s spiritual work and intellectual creativity were based.” - Benjamin Steiner, Aby Warburgs Zettelkasten Nr. 2 “Geschichtsauffassung”, In: Heike Gfrereis / Ellen Strittmatter (Hrsg.): Zettelkästen. Maschinen der Phantasie (Marbacher Kataloge, 66). Marbach 2013, S. 154-161.

Banerjee goes on to admit candidly: "I developed what we call 'typewriter fever'."

Here is one from page 102: The beauty of a thought is based on an intuitive assessment of its quality. It enables a "golden link" to my Zettelkasten to the entry point "Concepts of beauty". Today I found a beautiful quote that underlines this concept: We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought. — Marilynne Robinson

“When you look at America,” Mr. Renn said, “the potential we have is unlimited.”

“These guys have cracked the code on reaching young men, and they’re actually giving a lot of practical advice,” Mr. Renn said. “And by the way, some of the things that the church is telling these guys is just wrong.”

He sought out a church in Chicago and settled in, following a trajectory described by the 20th-century sociologist E. Digby Baltzell: The typical American is born a Baptist or Methodist, becomes a Presbyterian once he is educated, and then, after ascending to the heights of economic success, “joins a fashionable Episcopal church in order to satisfy his wife’s social ambitions.”

“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard and the co-author of the influential 2018 book “How Democracies Die.”

“The free-writing principle is the principle of juice, of letting go, of garbage, of finding diamonds among the garbage: all the metaphors you can make about free writing,” he told Writing on the Edge.

As he was writing (or not writing), he jotted notes to himself.“If something happened that struck me, I would write a note — sometimes just on a little scrap of paper — and would slip these pieces of paper into a folder,” he said in the interview. “Especially if I got stuck, I would take another piece of paper and say, ‘You’re stuck on this damn paper, so write about why you got stuck.’”The idea was to just get his thoughts down.

“I made myself a rule: every time a paper was due, I had to have a draft of the same length as the paper done a week before,” he said in a 1992 interview with the academic journal Writing on the Edge. “So then I knew I had a week to play with it.”

“The free-writing principle is the principle of juice, of letting go, of garbage, of finding diamonds among the garbage,” he said.Credit...

Bunny Watson: I associate many things with many things.

Mike Cutler: Bye girls. Always a pleasure to see your freshly scrubbed, smiling faces. Remember our motto: Be on time, do your work, be down in the bar at 5:30.

Peg Costello: I love Legal - it's all men!

I’m always looking, again, for the endnotes that refuse to end, which makes citation a kind of song, all these notes that want to keep the song going.

I long for a book made of only endnotes.

No revolutionary schemes ona large scale are advocated at present.

As the introduction has already shown, in our current system this makes total sense: Because you need to become the one company for a thing. The central social media platform, the shopping platform, the whatever. Even startups adopt the practices and methods of bigger cooperation – because that’s their aspiration: Becoming the next Goomazonbook.

Some of you might have heard the phrase “corporations don’t want to make money, they want to make all the money” (I think I heard it first from James Stephanie Sterling talking about video game publishers).

”Accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others.” — Tamara Renaye

Strabo, for example, is quiteexplicit:The whole race . . . is war-mad, high spirited and quick to battle, butotherwise straightforward and not of evil character. And so whenthey are stirred up they assemble in their bands for battle quiteopenly and without forethought ... They are ready to face dangereven if they have nothing on their side but their own strength andcourage. (Geog. 4.4.2)

‘Tf the heavens and earth are divided into four parts, the Indians willoccupy the land of the east wind, the Ethiopians the regions fromwhich the south wind blows, the Celts the west, and the Scythiansthe land of the north wind.’ This was the world view of Greekhistorian Ephorus of Cymae, whose great work Universal History,in thirty books, was written in the first half of the fourth century Bc.The original text has long since disappeared but this particularscrap survives as a quotation in Strabo’s Geography (1.2.28),compiled nearly three centuries later.

John Collis who, in ‘States without Centres’,complains that Celtic society described by some modern authorsmerely represents a mishmash of information from different timesand different places which is often of little value for understandingthe societies being described. Descriptions, or rather caricature, ofsocieties cannot be transposed in time and space under an inventedconcept of the ‘Celts’; indeed the whole use of the terms Celt andCeltic is something which should be avoided as it distorts ourunderstanding of the archaeological record.

Or should we accept, as J. R. R. Tolkien wrote in 1963, that‘anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not somuch a twilight of the gods as of the reason’, remembering, as thegreat Celtic scholar David Ellis Evans sternly pointed out in 1999,that Tolkien’s aside was meant specifically to make fun of certainextreme linguistic entomologies and not to be all embracing.

“The more the planet becomes a global village, the more vital become the values of cultural identity.”

He told Ken Smith, author of "Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films, 1945-1970" (1999): "Mental hygiene films boiled down to a compromise between real life and life as it ought to be."

It has been well said, that “ Plutarch’s Lives is the book for those who can nobly think and dare and do.”

The learned Dr. Guy Patin says: “On dit que M. de Meziriac avoit corrigé dans son Amyot huit mille fautes, et qu’Amyot n’avoit pas de bons exemplaires, ou qu’il n’avoit pas bien entendu le Grec de Plutarque.”3

μοι δυσκολώτερον ἦν εἰπεῖν ἢ πρᾶξαι It is harder for me to say it than to do it.

We keep your music streaming and downloading quickly and reliably, whether it’s 3am on a Sunday, or the hour your new record drops and Pitchfork gives it a scathingly positive review. We make your tracks available in every format under the sun, so the audiophilic nerderati can have their FLAC and eat mp3 v2. We adorn your songs with all the right metadata, so they sail into iTunes with artwork, album, band and track names intact. We mutter the various incantations necessary to keep your site top-ranked in Google, so when your fans search for your hits, they find your music long before they find bonkersforlyrics.com or iMyFace. We give your fans easy ways to share your music with their friends, and we give you gorgeous tools that reveal exactly how your music is spreading, so you can fan the fire.

the news. It is therefore ironic that the present Life feature ... shouldhave so mortician-like an air – as though Professor Adler and hisassociates had come to bury and not to praise Plato and other greatmen.The ‘great ideas’ whose headstones are alphabetically displayedabove the coffin-like filing boxes have been extracted from the greatbooks in order to provide an index tool for manipulating the booksthemselves. By means of this index the books are made ready forimmediate use. May we not ask how this approach to the content andconditions of human thought differs from any other merely verbaland mechanized education in our time?

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

why I love my wife. By myself, I am the one hand clapping, an illusion of a human. I come fully into personhood only when I am completed by the presence of my mate. She is, for me, the other hand, creating the sound that is our life.

Carl Jung considered this ease-of-answering test a way of understanding what matters most. “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble,” he wrote in 1931.

Misery (misère), the Frenchsociologist Eugène Buret once remarked, “is poverty felt morally.”

The criminal-legal system, Weaver has written, “trains people for adistinctive and lesser kind of citizenship.”[16]

Dadalways griped that the railroad men in town got paid more than he did. Hecould read ancient Greek, but they had a union.

We imagine that their sufferings are one thing and our life another.—LEO TOLSTOY

No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,” said Sir Winston Churchill in his speech to the meeting in the House of Lords, October 28, 1943, requesting that the House of Commons bombed out in May 1941 be rebuilt exactly as before.

One of the quotes I will use to open the paperback book is this, from Herman Melville's poem 'Clarel': Come, thou who makest such hot haste To forge the future—weigh the past.

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing,” Emerson said. “The discerning will read…only the authentic utterances of the oracle—all the rest he rejects.”

Emerson liked to identify four classes of readers: the hourglass, the sponge, the jelly-bag, and the Golconda. The hourglass takes nothing in. The sponge holds on to nothing but a little dirt and sediment. The jelly-bag doesn’t recognize good stuff, but holds on to worthless stuff. And the Golconda (a rich mine) keeps only the pure gems.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.”

A system-grinder hates the truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writers block sounds hard to overcome, but who ever has conversation block?

The act of making your log-file public requires a rigor that keeping personal notes does not. Writing for a notional audience — particularly an audience of strangers — demands a comprehensive account that I rarely muster when I’m taking notes for myself. I am much better at kidding myself my ability to interpret my notes at a later date than I am at convincing myself that anyone else will be able to make heads or tails of them. Writing for an audience keeps me honest.

There’s a version of the “why writers should blog” story that is tawdry and mercenary: “Blog,” the story goes, “and you will build a brand and a platform that you can use to promote your work.” Virtually every sentence that contains the word “brand” is bullshit, and that one is no exception.

Sidney Redlitch: Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle. That's how they used to excorcise them.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who once championed the fall of Roe v. Wade and said, “Pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness,” is now avoiding the topic amid a battle to keep his seat.

Everything Is A Conspiracy Theory When You Don’t Bother To Educate Yourself

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

That's a Royale with keys.

To write is to learn.1

Engagingwith the slip box should feel exciting, not anxiety-producing.

“e mind is for having ideas,not holding them.”7 Taken from David Allen’s seminal text on productivity,Getting ings Done, this idea, above all others, binds lawyers to Luddites,helping thousands who struggle to put ideas into action.

Soderbeck tells us about a recent job that took 40 hours to complete. He ended up charging the customer just $50.

"Business went right to nothing, hardly," he remembers. "As soon as that computer hit the price of under $2,000, that was the end of the typewriter business—80% of the business was gone in three years. When I started there was 27 little shops like this in the Twin Cities, and there was 47 before that."