important in determining

"Important in Determining," January 2, 2022 (#2)

title from (tag) line for New Yorker's "Why We Make Resolutions (And Why They Fail)" by Maria Konnikova (December 20, 2013)

"I, Me, Mine" by George Harrison for The Beatles (1970)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871-72)

The Secret Self: Psychoanalytic Experiences in Life and Literature by Theodor Reik (1952)

one line from Desperation by Stephen King (1996)

one line from "Give Way, Ye Gates" by Theodore Roethke (1970)

Important In Determining

Flowing more freely than wine,

desires are freely and often coarsely expressed:

I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Here is a dream whose latent material is

a sort of vampire’s feast in the sense of mastery.

Everyone's weaving it:

a projection of wishes and fears, of emotions and thoughts of

great surprise at her possession of such accomplishment.

It is possible that irony was not alien,

was arranged in a flame-like pyramid.

I would be embarrassed if i were asked why

I always think that must be a light study.

To have a very robust conscience that can bear what's heavy

from whose life pleasure had so entirely vanished

by introducing such a line.

Have you any message for your old playfellow?

This meaning or a similar one governs the surface of the

tropical island who was changing animals into

the substitution of a delicate or pleasing expression:

jocosely complimentary.

Believe me, knot of gristle, I bleed like a tree;

the stage is flooded by blood.

from here. Photograph by Delaney Allen for The New Yorker

1-1-22 of a print of a painting by nicolai fechin

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1-1-22 of a print of a painting by georgia o'keeffe

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