Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Getting Close to the Past
Alexander Langlands, Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts (2017; rpt. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019), p. 299:
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If you really want to get close to the past, as close as you can possibly get, then take a patch of unforgiving land and attempt to feed yourself from it. Doing so opens a window into the eternal struggle of human existence.Id., pp. 338-339:
This is the age of the leaf blower, the electric window and the battery-powered pepper grinder (with a built-in light)....Rake up your leaves. Grind your own pepper. Use your own arm to wind your car window up and down. Use your legs, in the first place, to get you from A to B.
