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In response to a journalist who asked him to "summarize himself in a nutshell," John Cage once said, "Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in." He knew his name was stuck to him, or he was stuck to it. Still, he urges out of it… We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold.

Perfect

I’ve literally found my new obsession HOLY

I don’t want any more. I want more.

Five stars off the bat HOLY COW

“But what good is a soul, really?” she muses, as if it’s the first time she’s stopped to wonder. As if it’s not the question that plagued her that first night, that still plagues her after all these years. “It lives in the mind. A piece you cannot see or touch. A prize you are told to shield for a time you cannot know. Easy enough to part with something so abstract when the alternative is freedom.

“But I am happy here,”
You will be happy there
as well,” she said. “Do you know why?”
Because you are the kind of bloom that thrives in any soil. And
who knows, perhaps you will meet a worthy gardener.”
“And barring that,” she went on, “think of all the stories you’ll have to tell
when you get back. After all, there is no art without life to inspire it.”

now we are rolling!! Alice is so slow, but Sabine, and maybe Charlotte, are so interesting,,, i feel we are close

being offended at being called dead (as a vampire) OK HILARIOUS I'LL GIVE YOU THAT

Lowkey trudging thru

the third-person is an adjustment!

Very natural dialogue. Once again I wonder where this is going, though I liked the follow through from the hot tub convo. I miss the vibe of the balcony conversation, more.

no wonder she can’t finish her Jane Eyre dissertation and no wonder she can’t sit through Mrs Dalloway !! I am enjoying!!

Whirlwind.

Funny dialogue but where is this going??

Lily idk if you’ve seen Babygirl but I feel this could’ve been an alternative timeline for Nicole Kidman

"“This entire time I’ve known you, you haven’t been fully smiling?”" yikes worse than betrayal

"the only item in her closet she can honestly say she still
loves, probably because it was the one thing she had never worn." excellent foreshadowing i expect. i am enjoying this

off to an impressive start with the mrs dalloway quote. hmm yes yes

"I mean absolutely against your will, but until we understand as a population the responsibilities that our ancestors took on in signing te Tiriti and the importance of right relationships between Maori and non-Māori, that sort of personal crossover always runs the risk of ultimately breaking down into a melding of culture that represents a continuation of the loss imposed by colonisation

"I think its about an understanding of how far we as settler people have to go. There's a sense in which, when you immerse yourself in the culture, when you learn the language, when you perform the arts, when you do the science within that culture, there's a deep privilege that attaches to that, that bears the risk that you end up being a cog in the colonial wheel...

Start at an aspirations level and ‘How can we improve the lives of tamariki?’, for example, before getting into the nuts and bolts. And acknowledge the space and history. And give time.

this means that māori are repeatedly exposed to the differences between themselves and pākehā, while pākehā are not. they are in some way protected from the knowledge of difference

Brandt found it common for cross-cultural friendships to operate solely within the Pākehā world. despite the high level of contact -- the opportunities for Pākehā to cross into the Māori world are limited or can be difficult to take. so, while Māori are necessarily bicultural, Brandt's data points to the many instances in which Pākehā are not

we are not tangata whenua; our roots are not the same as those of Māori, or as deeply set in time and in the land. it was not our ancestors who first explored, names and learnt how to live in this place. we are not of that unique culture that developed as a result. tangata tiriti will always be people who came later, and hence our being here is, in relation to and shaped by Māori being here before us

i'm losing the thread a bit, user error

the reader wants everything explained; those who come off best are the opera singers

this is not a pipe