Waiting around to write A Quote by Gertrude Stein subtlemaneuvers.substack.com If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. To be sure all day and every day you are waiting around to write that half hour a day. writingcreativity
Classical absurdity Corbusier observed that the requirements of flight of necessity rid airplanes of all superfluous decoration and so unwittingly transformed them into successful pieces of architecture. To place a Classical statue atop a house was as absurd as to add one to a plane, he noted, but at least by crashing in response to this addition, the plane had the advantage of rendering its absurdity starkly manifest. Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness Shorten the wingsTowards a New ArchitectureForm follows function function