We make
what we can't find
in the world,

and in history
we find who we can't make
of ourselves.

Most of it is unnecessary.
Some of it is possible.

We do what must be done.
The rest remains to be seen.

Use your eyes, Man.
Your fate is no longer
in your hands;
it is in your tools.

The equipment IS
the predicament.

Composure is not a balance
but a tension
between intuitions and institutions,
the media of our immediacy,
our disposition to experience
the presence of reason and passion
amid distraction.

The concept is the presence
of past perception in the thought.

Emotion is the presence
of past* action in the feeling.

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*Or is it future action? Is an emotion perhaps the "promise" associated with a feeling. Hope and fear would be the classic examples.