My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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This Saturday: a quote from Elias Canetti

“In the best times of my life I always think I am making room, even more room in me.  Here I shovel away snow, there I raise aloft a piece of fallen sky; there are superfluous lakes, I let them run out (I save the fish) overgrown forests, I drive crowds of apes into them, everything is astir, but there’s never enough room, I never ask why, I never feel why, I just have to keep making room, on and on, and as long as I can do so, I merit my life.”

– Elias Canetti