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Calibrating the Three Levers of Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Self Discovery

Two years ago, a moment of acute and somehow enduring heartache became the unlikely catalyst for the most radical physical transformation of my life. It wasn’t a single decision but the activation of a strange, powerful engine fueled by three levers: self-loathing, self-love, and self-discovery. Through no conscious effort of my own...

Playground by Richard Powers

Seven Essential Quotes Fifteen minutes after their brief service, Ina’s daughter was skipping down to the waves again, finding new jewels, as if death by plastic ingestion were just another inscrutable myth, as mysterious as a god huddled up in a spinning egg before the beginning of the world. One continuous war game between the two of...