“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


Thursday, February 2, 2012

Affects that Affect Me

Watching Maya Angelou I realized that the things that make me cry are most often to do with emotions associated with courage:

“Don't be afraid, come with me”—I often feel this when an excellent musician is playing.
“You are not going to die.”
“Live! Survive!”
“No. I will not let you hurt him.”
“There are more degrees of freedom here than you suppose.”

Courage, coeur, heart. That region of affect.

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