Timothy Morton

Yet such a future, the open future, has become taboo.

Because it is real, yet beyond concept.

Because it is weird.

Art is thought from the future. Thought we cannot explicitly think at present. Thought we may not think or speak at all

I take present to mean for the last twelve thousand years. A butterfly kiss of geological time

The women] were the most interesting of this company of binders, by reason of the charm which is acquired by woman when she becomes part and parcel of outdoor nature…. A field-man is a personality afield; a field-woman is a portion of the field; she had somehow lost her own margin…and assimilated herself with it