Will Harrison
Will Harrison
country mysterious one-love
Everyone loves a mysterious country.
growing-up reading thinking
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
reading writing odds
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.
world stories realizing
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
fun opportunity imagination
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.
girl heart insecure
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
believe recipes refuse trading tuna
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
believe government purpose
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
believe democratic directed government measures poor rich richer
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
believe men divine-right
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
government presidential examination
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
topics life-is englishmen
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
argument conspirators eternal
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
inspirational-life peculiar lessons
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.