After-Orts #65
A hidden NYT haiku:
If your masks come in
a package that’s not secured
shut, be suspicious.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/20/smarter-living/wirecutter/fake-mask-signs.html
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"Are you happy?" yells a character standing in a grove at the end of the day in Emilia Pardo Bazán's 1885 novel The Swan of Vilamorta. An echo responds: "Happy-y-y-y!".
-- Lapham's Quarterly, Summer 2019
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How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is “accepted” as a “trade-off.”
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
— both, Wendell Berry, What Are People For?