slowness

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• Apr 1 A Mind Calm and Full William Hazlitt, Table Talk; or, Original Essays ('On the Pleasure of Painting') There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know. In writing, you have to contend with t...
• Mar 1 The Woodcarver's Emptying Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi, Chapter 19: 'Mastering Life' (trans. Herbert A. Giles, 1889) Ch'ing, the chief carpenter, was carving wood into a stand for hanging musical instruments. When fin...
• Feb 12 The Fading Coal Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A ma...
• Jan 28 The Irreducible Ingredient Emily Dickinson, Poems To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,