anyone else sometimes just wake up thinking about edith metzger, the woman pollock took to his death w/ him? i do...http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/09/jackson-pollock-ruth-kligman-love-triangle …
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@zoeinthecities It offends our vanity to acknowledge how consequential pure dumb luck is. We want to believe ourselves captains of our fate.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zoeinthecities To see ourselves as mere playthings of chance is indeed to behold a nightmare: for chance is both merciless and inexorable.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zoeinthecities And we do not seem to be powerless to shape our lives. Fates like Edith Metzger's, though shocking and terrible, are rare.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zoeinthecities We seem to choose, and our most resonant, most crucial choices seem both immediate and timeless: http://bit.ly/1KF0VcY1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zoeinthecities But we are born not knowing, and have only a little while to change that, here and there. Our choices are made in ignorance.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@zoeinthecities Like Edith Metzger, we leap into the unknown. And sometimes we vanish into the abyss. Sometimes we never come back.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@zoeinthecities But we keep on leaping, because it is in our nature to leap: our curiosity and ambition are stronger than our fear.
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