“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Plowing On

When you start the edit phase, it's like raking cold stiff ground. Then the ground begins to soften and you warm to the cognitive task in hand.

I'm doing two kinds of edit: looking through the entire book for habitual phrases, phrases that I use to keep myself writing, and which work in talks, but not so well in books. And slowly reading through the whole thing for content and form.

Hyperobjects is much better than it was two days ago, which is very pleasing. All permissions but one are now in hand, which is excellent.

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