"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."
-Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919–8 February 1999)
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A Misunderstanding of Assignment
Christmas, 1968. Country Club Lane, Atlanta GA. The air was thick with it—not just the humidity of a Georgia winter, but the static of chang...
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