Modular life, meaningful work - by Henrik Karlsson

Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 3

Isamu Noguchi, Ashtray Prototypes, 1945-1948 An alert thinker will often find more that is instructive and delightful in the playful writings of great men than in their serious works. —Lichtenberg In January, I was in the mood to read fragments: the leftover scraps authors have in their notebooks, the tangents they’ve cut from their main works. Fragments attract me—the straight-to-the-bone quality of the writing, the way it captures the underlying structure of how someone thinks by giving you hundreds of discrete data points instead of one long line of edited thought. Fragments and notes…

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