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I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

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John Updike

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements. ' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can. ' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

Beer, Begins, Drinking, Experience, Thinking, Updike
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Art, Constant, Philosophy, Saying, Writing

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

Beautiful, Imprint, Perfect, Taken, Truth, Useful

We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.

Adolescent, Giving, Life Sucks, Lyrics, Pathology, Suicide

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Afraid Of Death, Altered, Each Day, Person, Time, Yesterday

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Beloved, Doth, Fashion, Love, Mirrors, Produces
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