Will Harrison
Will Harrison
american-president directed government measures poor richer
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
successes
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
attempt bargain believes foot fulfill great survey
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
fiction represent science
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
god quarry
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
grief belief unhappiness
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
medicine soul fuel
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
memories venice magic
In memory Venice is always magic.
gay
Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...
soul priceless possession
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
rome lessons matter
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
tired rome wish
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
air fire islands
the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.