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Mamdani on St Patrick & the Irish.

“A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.”

- Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds via @jacobwren.bsky.social

"Every true work, like every true individual, is first of all a ‘that which is not'."

       "From a Window

Up here, with June, the sycamore throws
      Across the window a whispering screen;
   I shall miss the sycamore more, I suppose,
Than anything else on this earth that is out in green.
   But I mean to go through the door without fear,
   Not caring much what happens here
         When I’m away: —
How green the screen is across the panes
      Or who goes laughing along the lanes
   With my old lover all summer day."

—Charlotte Mew via

"Seagulls among pigeons are like Greek gods among mortals. The gods have the same passions, conflicts, loves, fights and losses as we do, but pursue their desires with more beauty and power than we little humans possess."