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One of the revelations in that book [lincoln in the bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. but, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that americans have not been living into them.
-George Saunders
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One Of The Revelations In That Book

George Saunders
One of the revelations in that book [lincoln in the bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. but, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that americans have not been living into them.
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. the second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. the third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
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If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent if the unheard, unspoken word is unspoken, unheard; still is the spoken word, the word unheard, the word without a word, the word within the world and for the world; and the light shone in the darkness and against the word the unstilled world still whirled about the center of the silent word. oh my people, what have i done unto thee. where shall the word be found, where shall the word resound? not here, there is not enough silence
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The spiritual kinship between lincoln and whitman was founded upon their americanism, their essential westernism. whitman had grown up without much formal education; lincoln had scarcely any education. one had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the gettsyburg address. it was inevitable that whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that lincoln was his.
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Abraham lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. the aide said, “then it was a good service?” lincoln responded, “no.” the aide protested, “but, mr. president, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “yes,” replied lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.
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One of the ideas that runs through this book [lincoln in the bardo] is this buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.
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What was fun for me with this book [lincoln in the bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "we're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." and then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "okay, but i really need this. i really need some historical nuggets." and you're like, "all right, but keep it under control."
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