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"Learning to Live Better" by Donald R. Brann
"We live in a strange and wondrous age of miracles. By harnessing the gravitational power of a planet, men discovered how to travel further, faster, and finally to walk on the moon."
Heavy man. Just frickin' heavy.
"....A case in point is...a switch that fails to function. It immediately radiates small waves of irritation that stimulate larger currents of despair."
So, so true. Many are the times I've wanted to do myself in after pressing the "On" button of a small appliance only to find it not working.
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From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.
So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.
A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.
"Learning to Live Better" by Donald R. Brann
"We live in a strange and wondrous age of miracles. By harnessing the gravitational power of a planet, men discovered how to travel further, faster, and finally to walk on the moon."
Heavy man. Just frickin' heavy.
"....A case in point is...a switch that fails to function. It immediately radiates small waves of irritation that stimulate larger currents of despair."
So, so true. Many are the times I've wanted to do myself in after pressing the "On" button of a small appliance only to find it not working.
* * * * *
From a series of circa-1960s D.I.Y. books called "Easi-Bild" that were published by a fellow named Donald Brann. In the beginning of each one, he wrote a little homily that tried to link up his own Confucius-like wisdom with whatever Easy Bild project was at hand.
So there would be a couple of paragraphs where he waxed poetic about some general concept essential to the good life, and then there would be a paragraph where he'd try to make you think you'd never done better by yourself than you did the moment you decided, say, to purchase the Easy Bild book on building a plywood bar in your basement.
A tragically overlooked 20th-century Thoreau was Mr. Brann.