Another stunner by HK, most famous on SN (perhaps) for this gem.
Every so often you run into somebody who says the stuff you're thinking or, better, haven't quite got around to thinking, but it hits you like it was yours, like you're coming home to it. This is one such, for me.
If you're wondering where the joy went in life, and how you might little by little have got sideways in the pursuit of it, then you might dig the article.
Way, way back in college, my friends and I were huge Talking Heads fans. We listened to heaven over and over again. At first we thought of it as funny, bordering on dumb. We grew to think of it as genius, particularly when the marijuana was flowing freely. I still listen to that album (Fear Of Music) a few times a year
Thanks for this. I wanna know, are you a paying subscriber?
I think it’s admirable that he has the intellectual courage to follow his heart and go with the flow, since his writings are expected to pay the bills. I can understand the tension of a hunter’s mentality - of wanting to focus on something that others might find interesting so that time might be spent more productively
Not yet. I don't pay for any Substack (I think the pricing model is absurd) but I'm very close to just thinking of it as charitable donation.
Great, thanks for sharing that
The writing is like writing in a book, according to the title "Funny Stories About Curiosity", everyone definitely wants to know, whatever it is, because curiosity always makes us curious, likewise, curiosity really wants to know.