“The geology lesson therefore teaches that objects or substantial forms depend on an anteriority always more extensive than them, and that such anteriority is always the domain of production.” - Ian Hamilton Grant, “Mining Conditions: a response to Harman” in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
Hmm. That is neither helpful nor hopeful.
“‘I am flattered that you remember my words so well, Countess,’ replied Levin who had had time to recover his self-possession, resuming immediately and by force of habit his banteringly hostile relation with her.”
Eep. Well, of all the sentences I could have pulled out of Anna Karenina, this is definitely not the MOST worrisome.
(Source: loveclaire)