the problem with excerpts is that the rest of the book is about finding an idea of minimalism that isn’t just “less stuff”
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I love this critique and can’t wait to hear it over and over againhttps://twitter.com/IceCube85/status/1214408951237758976 …
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Sontag: “There is no talented and rigorous asceticism that… doesn’t produce a gain (rather than a loss) in the capacity for pleasure.”
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or, minimalism can be about excess, as one of my favorite Donald Judd quotes puts it: “A lot of red is maybe better than three colors”
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the book is, hopefully, the “a lot of red” version of writing
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btw if you want a more minimal book on minimalism, I’d suggest Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, which is, I’m afraid, utterly banal
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a book…. full of empty pages.. that you write yourself so I don’t have to
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this joke is definitely going to be funny every time you read it !
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what if instead you whispered the book individually to every person who was interested in it
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Clearly the entire essay/book should have just been ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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