“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


Saturday, September 10, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 8

7100 words. I beetle through it and hit a wall. Then I stop. It's not as cut and dried as that. The thinking process becomes clotted and thick and I feel myself slowing down, encountering obstacles. So a couple of hundred words into that feeling, I decide I'm done for the moment. The wall is a soft wall made of small bricks of foam. As you crash into it, it absorbs your speed, and you slowly begin to feel a little dazed.

I find myself mostly developing the first part of the book, “What Are Hyperobjects?” The slightly more tricky seeming second part, “The Time of Hyperobjects,” scares me a little bit.

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