Wednesday, June 11, 2008

5 mins

5 minutes of galt's speech a day.
about a paragraph or two.
some notes. some questions.
cross-references triggered, needed.
5 minutes of sanity
5 minutes of grounding

2 minutes of potok. loving-kindness.
a means to an end different from rand.
but i imagine she would honor him,
"an honorable adversary."

from potok,
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."

"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature."

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."