| | To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the far-out, an gift to trust unsure things beyond your own pilot, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something remarkably impressive about the fettle of the righteous passion: that it is based on a conviction in the unpredictable and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a treasure, something kind of tenuous, but whose extremely precise beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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