Without Lifting A Finger

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin ( / k r oʊ ˈ p ɒ t k ɪ n , k r ə - / ; [9] Russian : Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian geographer , economist, activist, philologist , zoologist , evolutionary theorist , philosopher, writer, and prominent anarchist . Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops , and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution . He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition . [From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin ]

Of late he had become so desperate about this deadlock that he boldly called it an absolutely epoch-making scientific work. But she only laughed and said: Whatever it is that you have in your head, I'd rather not see it; if your head could be tipped over to empty out its contents, what is likely to fall out is some ghastly mess or other, some indefinable, horrifying, utterly worthless kind of dung or rot. Your so-called book -- this is how the Konrad woman dared to refer to her husband's work-in-progress toward the end -- is really nothing more than a delusion.

Been busy with school but have been reading and writing quite a bit. Refuge. Recent reading: Nabokov, Coetzee, Coetzee, Nabokov, David Ferry (reread), Thomas Bernhard. Got Melville on the back burner, or I may reach for another Bernhard (we'll see). * From Bernhard's The Lime Works : Even though it was still referred to as the lime works, when it came up, it would after all be truer to speak of a shut-down or deactivated lime works, when referring to the lime works. People are always referring to all kinds of structures or mental complexes, Konrad is supposed to have said, that have long ceased to be the same structures or mental complexes they once were.