August 2009
69 posts
Explaining the break
Hello,
Tomorrow may be dramatic, but obviously TiD hasn’t had any posts in quite a while. There is a reason for this, and it is Europe. TiD has been on holiday for a few days, and will return to form on the 28th of August. There’s been plenty of interesting things captured while here (we’re intentionally generalizing Europe even though it has been quite diverse), and the future...
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“Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to...”
– Marcel Proust, whom I’ve quoted before, cited by Alain de Botton, whom I’ve also mentioned a few times. This is a great distillation of the redemptive power of art: imaginatively turning anguish into thought can be a means not merely to some sort of wisdom but also to overcoming suffering. This is...
