#outwardness

[wordswilling]

so i'm reading this article about david foster wallace and this is the bit i'm up to processing (verbally) in the moment:

Where the craving for admiration and approval predominates, intellectual rigor cannot thrive, if it survives at all.

i think intellectual rigor and the craving for admiration/approval are more similar than maud newton allows. it's (outward) acceptance, just from different circles of people.

[wordswilling]

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven

[wordswilling]

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

[sorensays]

The dubious character of the monastic movement (apart from the error of presumed meritoriousness) was that the absolute interiority, probably in order to demonstrate very energetically that it existed, acquired its obvious expression in a distinctive separate outwardness, whereby it nevertheless, however one twists and turns, became only relatively different from all other outwardness.

Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript

[besmirchthis]

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theater Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play it.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It