otoh a big thing I learned when I started ADD meds that, objectively and unambiguously, worked is that etc deep in yr self-concept may prove to be a post-hoc explanatory invention believed bc plausibility is easy to mistake for accuracy. it's complicated.https://twitter.com/See_Em_Play/status/956841384278921216 …
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc
"Post-hoc explanatory" made me think of the tail end of Stevens' "It Must Gve Pleasure": But the difficultest rigor is forthwith, On the image of what we see, to catch from that Irrational moment its unreasoning, As when the sun comes rising, when the sea Clears deeply...
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...when the moon hangs on the wall Of heaven-haven. These are not things transformed. Yet we are shaken by them as if they were. We reason about them with a later reason.
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if I had to make a short list of "things you'll eventually learn that your young self couldn't have understood" that "these are not things transformed, yet we are shaken by them as if they were" feel would be on it if not top of it
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Wallace Stevens imay have perhaps been the greatest of all Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company executives -- the foremost among many worthies.
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if there isn't already a canonical list of greats in arts and literature with day jobs in insurance then there should be. Stevens and Charles Ives are the ones I can recall offhand
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Kafka, too.
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