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“We humans don’t like uncertainty, so we are attracted to those who offer clarity and simple answers, even if the answers are wrong or incomplete. Master Persuaders can thrive in chaotic environments by offering the clarity people crave. And if an environment is not chaotic already, a skilled persuader who understands both social media and the news business can easily stir the pot to create an advantage through chaos. Candidate Trump was a champion of this method.”
― Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
― Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
“My soul is like a pawn shop. I mean it's filled with unredeemed pleasures, old clarinets, and cameras, and motheaten fur.”
― Henderson the Rain King
― Henderson the Rain King
“Reality
is always at the edge of the abyss,
hung from the thread of a thought.”
― A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
is always at the edge of the abyss,
hung from the thread of a thought.”
― A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.”
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
“Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footpath on your own...Paths connect. This is their first duty and their chief reason for being. They relate places in a literal sense, and by extension they relate people.
Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (through they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths NEED walking.”
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Paths are consensual, too, because without common care and common practice they disappear: overgrown by vegetation, ploughed up or built over (through they may persist in the memorious substance of land law). Like sea channels that require regular dredging to stay open, paths NEED walking.”
― The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Floyd’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Floyd’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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1,468 friends
5 books
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134 books
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235 books
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105 books
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407 books
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128 friends
23 books
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199 friends
556 books
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103 friends
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