Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber:
"There is an age when we teach what we know: but then there comes another when we teach what we do not know: that is called seeking. Perhaps now comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning.”
~ Roland Barthes
Died on this day, in 1980

thanks to @annapagess

Today's Twitter gem:
Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: “Literature is the question minus the answer.”
~ Roland Barthes, died on this day, in 1980

"What is most difficult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it."

— Hannah Arendt (/via Twitter)

92Y Poetry Center - @92YPoetry: “'Write about what you know' is the most stupid thing I’ve heard. It encourages people to write a dull autobiography. It’s the reverse of firing the imagination and potential of writers."
— Kazuo Ishiguro

Once the robot-writers are let loose we can ignore what they write and read on the internets. No? 😰 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00530-0

To quote a famous line: If we continue on as we have in the past, the country will cease to be the country it once was.

Fang, Fang; Berry, Michael. Wuhan Diary (p. 223). HarperVia. Kindle Edition.

Thinking about next steps in Texas:
"Reflection and responsibility are intricately interconnected. If we do not staunchly pursue those responsible for what happened, we will never be able to seriously reflect."
Fang, Fang; Berry, Michael. Wuhan Diary (p. 212). HarperVia. Kindle Edition.

a little haiku for today:

By the air we breathe
We are all connected now.
It's a pandemic!

iconoclast - @paulfuhlir: We do have conservative and liberal parties: the mainstream democrats and progressives. The Republicans are an anti-democratic Cult.

Sam Sifton writes the NYT Cooking page. Here is the opening for today’s column: ‘Good morning. I don’t like this season of “Pandemic.” The writing’s weak, and the plotlines keep shifting. Everything’s so dark!’

mood:
David Frum - @davidfrum: "Democracy is the most fragile thing on earth, for what does it rest upon? You and me, and the fact that we agree to maintain it. The moment either of us says we will not, that’s the end of it." - Allen Drury, author of Advise & Consent.

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1360669749240356871

From ‘passing time, an essay on waiting’ by Andrea Köhler (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088317889), p. 75

‘… the “phantoms, ghosts, vampires, and elemental spirits of the past” continue to haunt our technological innovations, and nobody knows exactly where they might be lying in wait.’

Some preachin' on working on our work cultures (from Stowe Boyd):
https://workfutures.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-work-culture

from elsewhere on the world-wild web: https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/105656348515244331