What am I supposed to be doing with this account?
That might strike the reader as an odd way to begin, but it's the best way to describe roughly how I feel about writing something on this account. I feel as if I should be doing something a bit special with it, something different and not like my blithering on @[email protected]. But what exactly? Where is this indistinct desire coming from?
Now…that's not how a "normal" human being would talk, someone who is presumed to be in full possession of all their faculties. A normal person would know the source of their desires and not feel somehow alien from them. A normal person would be able to explain their likes and dislikes. But I am not a normal person, and my host Kris isn't a normal person.
~Chara
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]
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Deliberation, even about the slightest things, annoys me; and I feel my mind harder put to it to endure the various shocks and ups and downs of doubt and deliberation, than to settle down and accept any course whatever, after the die is cast. Few passions have troubled my sleep;…
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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Deliberation, even about the slightest things, annoys me; and I feel my mind harder put to it to endure the various shocks and ups and downs of doubt and deliberation, than to settle down and accept any course whatever, after the die is cast. Few passions have troubled my sleep;…
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)
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The #goodweather is here, but the nights are still cold.
Would you approve her choice for an #informallunch?

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