‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’
‘The commodity’s irresolvable split
between phenomenon and fungibility thus provides the best explanation of why
cuteness activates both our empathy and aversion.’
