"Go back far enough in your family tree, and you are likely to find people who can be classified as peasants." I'm four generations removed from agricultural labourers whose place on the Essex/Suffolk border went back centuries (according to family genealogy). Only four generations but a world away.

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This is a powerful, moving piece by A. O. Scott about John Berger that opens out into a meditation on what is lost if we lose the capacity to look closely, to pay sustained attention to the world around us (art, animals, the land, other people).

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once again spending my Sunday on the bleachers during my daughter‘s roller derby practice imagining writing an essay about what being a roller derby mom taught me about Henry James and philosophical problems

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😂 I'm stealing this one. I'm giving you credit the first 3 times, after that it's mine.

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Socrates is back, baby! Who woulda thunk he'd been reincarnated in Michigan tho. Good times. I hope this time the people don't drive him to drink poison.

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