Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
Rivka GalchenBut one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I canโt help people eat cereal any longer.
Rivka GalchenThe magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?
Rivka GalchenThe writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.
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