An idea is a thought. It’s a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it.
— David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish
Tag: the-remembery
Quick things that resonated deeply and that I will want to return to.
Arbitrary
Beginnings and endings are arbitrary. They frame the story that the narrator wants to tell.
This is from The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabrielle and David Lollard. It seems a little obvious, maybe even anodyne, but it’s such a good phrasing of the idea that I want to burn it into my memory.