7.11: Bedtime reading



7.11: Bedtime reading, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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The Omnivore’s Dilemma:

"Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world–and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting.

2.9: to give the charm of novelty to things of every day

2.9: to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

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Do you ever go back to books you read a long time ago and look at the notes you made in the margin and wonder, not only what the hell you were thinking about when you made that note, but who the hell you were when you read the book? I was poking around in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria just for fun (it’s a strange and silly book & it’s where we get the phrase “the willing suspension of disbelief”) and found lots of notes I made in the margins when I read the book in graduate school. They’re s confounding.