Gnostics.... We maintain that the world is an illusion. The unconscious self is
consubstantial with perfection, but because of a tragic fall it is
thrown into a foreign domain that is completely alien to its true being.
It’s always a fall, a tragic fall, and here we are. That’s it, in a
nutshell.
Stuff, Joy Williams (The New Yorker, July 25, 2016)
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Thursday, July 21, 2016
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