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How to Paint republished.

"Science Fiction has been carrying on about near-future or far-future destructions, and its mind-set will not allow it to realize that the destruction of our world has already happened in the quite recent past..." --R A Lafferty, 1979

"I have battled for fresh mammoth..."

"A WALK

Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunny one,
at the end of the path which I’ve only just begun.
So we are grasped, by that which we could not grasp,
at such great distance, so fully manifest—

and it changes us, even when we do not reach it,
into something that, hardly sensing it, we already are;
a sign appears, echoing our own sign . . .
But what we sense is the wind against us."

--Rilke, 1924 (tr S Miller)

"Nevertheless, habitus is a step towards having something to do rather than a merely a set of responses to stimuli."