Bundle You've walked past it a hundred times Five things whose whole argument is that the interesting part was already in front of you.
Finds
- On Looking Eleven walks around one city block, each with a different expert
- Olga Tokarczuk on tenderness The most modest form of love
- Juan Ramón Jiménez: "Platero stops eating and looks at me" The Spanish Nobel laureate's prose poem about a quiet exchange of attention with his donkey — surfaced by Maria Popova on tenderness as a vehicle for the eternal.
- Thoreau: "The poet's relation to his theme is the relation of lovers" Thoreau on how attention becomes love — surfaced by Maria Popova through a journal entry about 24 hours spent with a screech owl.
- Thomas Pynchon — "The wrong questions" Gravity's Rainbow on misdirection as power
- RedditTok (reddvu) Any subreddit as a vertical-scroll TikTok feed
- Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success Roy reframes success as a list of practiced verbs — to love, to be loved, to never forget your own insignificance — rather than an outcome.