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" 'When we allow affective responses to set the terms for responding to history,' Schrier powerfully writes, 'we risk engaging in a deceptive nihilism'."

"Small Prayer

Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes.
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen,
That time may find its sound again, and cleanse
Whatever it is that a wound remembers
After the healing ends."

--Weldon Kees

Hotel California.

"I remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened." --@granitedhuine

"Yet the promise is not of a monument."