I don't often (have I ever?) link to articles or essays that move me. Perhaps due to my slothful nature-- it simply is too much effort and would interrupt my dawdling.

Yet. When I read an essay that speaks to the very core of my belief system--an essay that is supremely intelligent and draws on a wide range of resources effortlessly--an essay that were I not a happily married woman would inspire me to hunt down the author (Mark Slouka) and stalk him--an essay with so many killer sentences to choose just one would be like plucking a single stem from a meadow of wild flowers-- I must rouse myself from the chaise lounge where I was just staring out the window and I must LINK to it. Found via kottke.<.

"I'm a student of the narrowing margins. And their victim, to some extent, though my capacity for sloth, my belief in it, may yet save me, Like some stub?born heretic in fifth-century Rome, still offering gifts to the spirit of the fields even as the priests sniff about the tempa for sin, I daily sacrifice my bit of time. The pagan gods may yet return. Constantine and Theodosius may die. But the prospects are bad.".<

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