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QOTD 💬@booknotification the Pascal quote reminds me of one from George Saunders:
"I think, therefore I am wrong, after which I speak, and my wrongness falls on someone also thinking wrongly, and then there are two of us thinking wrongly, and, being human, we can't bear to think without taking action, which, having been taken, makes things worse."
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I couldn't decide between the two, so it's a #SundaySentence double-shot from Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots.I couldn't decide between the two, so it's a #SundaySentence double-shot from Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots.
'Grammar and grammarians are constables, sternly watching while you split infinitives, narrowing their eyes at spliced commas while smacking semi-coloned truncheons against their palms.'
'But that is the nature of grammar - it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will.'