Your Morning Iris
For Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
Week 106 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week Iris Murdoch
“Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.” — The Sea, the Sea
Years ago, I 'attended' an est seminar (don't ask, she was cute). It was all bullshit, except for one thing the guy said to be true - "You never get all your shit together. You just put them in piles."
The Internet has forced a group photo perspective on deeds past, all those tendrils that were designed to be loose.