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Ellen Cassidy

Ellen Cassidy

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From Why We Spend Our Brief Lives Indoors, Alone, and Typing by Timothy Kreider

…lath. The quotation from O’Connor reads: “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” I’d likened writing to stained glass, an anachronism, but stained glass is more than an artifact in itself — it’s a medium, to make the invisible manifest. The sunlight through the cathedral windows cast a warm pastel glow across the flagstones, lending t…

From Why We Spend Our Brief Lives Indoors, Alone, and Typing by Timothy Kreider

Why, then, do we do it — spend so much of our brief time alive in this gorgeous world indoors, alone, and typing?

From Why We Spend Our Brief Lives Indoors, Alone, and Typing by Timothy Kreider

… uncomfortably aware of the distance between her searing idealism and my own guttering disillusion. Anyone who makes the mistake of turning their passion into a vocation gets to watch it turn, like gold transmuting into lead, into a job. You start out motivated by pure, childish things: the pleasure of finding something you do well, of…

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Why We Spend Our Brief Lives Indoors, Alone, and Typing

Timothy Kreider

That’s a good question.

Kate Vershov Downing

Everyone with a job, and everyone who wants one, should vote for Hillary Clinton.

Paul Gowder