“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched.”
Not ultimately an Ayn Rand fan though I appreciate some of her writing, and I do love this.
Beautifully said.
The divine ethical rules are the essence of simplicity—yet deeper and more challenging and more rewarding than one would ever think and one ultimately has to discover it for oneself. I’m trying and I’m failing every day, but hopefully I’m failing less across the arc of time.
I don’t know the impact on insects of the example I’ll add to this but it fits the spirit of your note: my grandparents farm came with the obligation by federal or state regulation to remove “noxious weeds,” which apparently had to be sprayed with Tordon. One drop on the leaf of a tree would kill it. My cousins and I carried this on our backs as children, walking over 2000 acres, spraying Leafy Spurge and Russian Knapweed and undoubtedly inhaling aerosolized particles. My grandfather hated the regulation but also sent grandchildren out to spray and eventually, when he saw sense, to pull the weeds, to raise us in a 19th century idea of work and to give the appearance of due diligence. The weeds were never beat, of course, and are endemic now.
This is a treasure and a joy to see. So rare that an artist whose eyes one has the chance to see through brings you, with them, the chance to live through those eyes for a moment, and by extension to live a split second in the life of the subject. Yes like a film but in a way also like a cross section through a vivid dream. I felt this with the paintings and etchings of Otto Dix and I feel this with these photographs. Wonderful—like you said, absolutely of their time and yet one can live in them now.
AI when reading your note 
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why writers supposedly have the cleanest houses
I tried something like this in graduate school. It did not end well. I felt like death after six months. There were other factors at work as well.
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guitar goals from another life
In the “not a movie” categories:
😇 Devilman Crybaby, a beautiful, wrenching, glorious, horrifying series that I loved and I’ve never heard anyone discuss IRL
😈 Squid Game, I hated it and want that time back
