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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
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· Sep 19
Moshe Feldenkrais, Selvarajan Yesudian and Yoga - An open-ended story in three parts
Part 1
wellhousecircle.substack.com
I've written a piece about the connections of yoga & Feldenkrais - if you're interested please read & consider subscribing to my Substack. This topic is very much open for exploration. I'd love to hear your thoughts. wellhousecircle.substack.com/p/moshe-feld...
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Builders, writers, therapists, others? barely having energy to look after themselves if they let themselves be consumed by their work.
'I imagine living somewhere completely blank... where all the angles are straight & the corners squared'
Is Cusk's writing angles or squared?
Builders, writers, therapists, others? barely having energy to look after themselves if they let themselves be consumed by their work.
'I imagine living somewhere completely blank... where all the angles are straight & the corners squared'
Is Cusk's writing angles or squared?
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
#rachelcusktogether
Builders, writers, therapists, others? barely having energy to look after themselves if they let themselves be consumed by their work.
'I imagine living somewhere completely blank... where all the angles are straight & the corners squared'
Is Cusk's writing angles or squared?
Builders, writers, therapists, others? barely having energy to look after themselves if they let themselves be consumed by their work.
'I imagine living somewhere completely blank... where all the angles are straight & the corners squared'
Is Cusk's writing angles or squared?
#rachelcusktogether
A writer like a builder, 'the instrument of their [characters'? readers'?]desire while remaining the guardian of possibility'
Nice turn of phrase.
A writer like a builder, 'the instrument of their [characters'? readers'?]desire while remaining the guardian of possibility'
Nice turn of phrase.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A writer like a builder, 'the instrument of their [characters'? readers'?]desire while remaining the guardian of possibility'
Nice turn of phrase.
A writer like a builder, 'the instrument of their [characters'? readers'?]desire while remaining the guardian of possibility'
Nice turn of phrase.
#rachelcusktogether
'In a way, he went on..., he felt his clients sometimes forgot that he was a person: instead he became, in a sense, an extension of their own will. Often they would start asking him to do things...' [including dog walking!]
How a writer feels about her characters, like a servant?
'In a way, he went on..., he felt his clients sometimes forgot that he was a person: instead he became, in a sense, an extension of their own will. Often they would start asking him to do things...' [including dog walking!]
How a writer feels about her characters, like a servant?
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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'In a way, he went on..., he felt his clients sometimes forgot that he was a person: instead he became, in a sense, an extension of their own will. Often they would start asking him to do things...' [including dog walking!]
How a writer feels about her characters, like a servant?
'In a way, he went on..., he felt his clients sometimes forgot that he was a person: instead he became, in a sense, an extension of their own will. Often they would start asking him to do things...' [including dog walking!]
How a writer feels about her characters, like a servant?
#rachelcusktogether
So builders and writers have at least two things in common - they are both constructing (edifices and stories) and they both see people without their seeing being notices.
'I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you.'
So builders and writers have at least two things in common - they are both constructing (edifices and stories) and they both see people without their seeing being notices.
'I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you.'
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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So builders and writers have at least two things in common - they are both constructing (edifices and stories) and they both see people without their seeing being notices.
'I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you.'
So builders and writers have at least two things in common - they are both constructing (edifices and stories) and they both see people without their seeing being notices.
'I said it must be interesting to be able to see people without them seeing you.'
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'It seemed so strange that these two extremes - the repellent and the idyllic, death and life - could stand only a few feet apart and remain mutually untransformed.'
This makes me think of 'mixed-tenure housing' & 'poor doors'. The neighbourhood the narrator is in is in transit.
'It seemed so strange that these two extremes - the repellent and the idyllic, death and life - could stand only a few feet apart and remain mutually untransformed.'
This makes me think of 'mixed-tenure housing' & 'poor doors'. The neighbourhood the narrator is in is in transit.
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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'It seemed so strange that these two extremes - the repellent and the idyllic, death and life - could stand only a few feet apart and remain mutually untransformed.'
This makes me think of 'mixed-tenure housing' & 'poor doors'. The neighbourhood the narrator is in is in transit.
'It seemed so strange that these two extremes - the repellent and the idyllic, death and life - could stand only a few feet apart and remain mutually untransformed.'
This makes me think of 'mixed-tenure housing' & 'poor doors'. The neighbourhood the narrator is in is in transit.
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the 'shrivelled dog' who Paula takes a 'vicious swipe' at, sending him flying to the other side fo the room.
Another dog story, once again abused. What is it about Cusk and dogs?
the 'shrivelled dog' who Paula takes a 'vicious swipe' at, sending him flying to the other side fo the room.
Another dog story, once again abused. What is it about Cusk and dogs?
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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the 'shrivelled dog' who Paula takes a 'vicious swipe' at, sending him flying to the other side fo the room.
Another dog story, once again abused. What is it about Cusk and dogs?
the 'shrivelled dog' who Paula takes a 'vicious swipe' at, sending him flying to the other side fo the room.
Another dog story, once again abused. What is it about Cusk and dogs?
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After much introspection, I’ve come to realize that my purpose in life is to convert as many people as possible to a life of books, cats, scones, and Oxford commas.
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
After much introspection, I’ve come to realize that my purpose in life is to convert as many people as possible to a life of books, cats, scones, and Oxford commas.
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'We are so schooled...in the doctrine of self-acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.'
Not so simple. The boy's vision and his natural abilities didn't match. Through perseverance and the development of new habits he changed.
'We are so schooled...in the doctrine of self-acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.'
Not so simple. The boy's vision and his natural abilities didn't match. Through perseverance and the development of new habits he changed.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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'We are so schooled...in the doctrine of self-acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.'
Not so simple. The boy's vision and his natural abilities didn't match. Through perseverance and the development of new habits he changed.
'We are so schooled...in the doctrine of self-acceptance that the idea of refusing to accept yourself becomes quite radical.'
Not so simple. The boy's vision and his natural abilities didn't match. Through perseverance and the development of new habits he changed.
#rachelcusktogether
'he was determined she shouldn't grow up wtih the clear impression he had had of his own parents, that their love for him was conditional on his acquiesecense to their desires.'
Perennial issue - testing it is not without risk!
'he was determined she shouldn't grow up wtih the clear impression he had had of his own parents, that their love for him was conditional on his acquiesecense to their desires.'
Perennial issue - testing it is not without risk!
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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'he was determined she shouldn't grow up wtih the clear impression he had had of his own parents, that their love for him was conditional on his acquiesecense to their desires.'
Perennial issue - testing it is not without risk!
'he was determined she shouldn't grow up wtih the clear impression he had had of his own parents, that their love for him was conditional on his acquiesecense to their desires.'
Perennial issue - testing it is not without risk!
#rachelcusktogether
I love the way she looks back & recognises her own blind spots and shortfalls. When she talks about being punished, a feeling of karma. 'Perhaps....it is never clear what should be saved & what destroyed'.
'Maybe it's only in our injuries...that the future can take root.'
I love the way she looks back & recognises her own blind spots and shortfalls. When she talks about being punished, a feeling of karma. 'Perhaps....it is never clear what should be saved & what destroyed'.
'Maybe it's only in our injuries...that the future can take root.'
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I love the way she looks back & recognises her own blind spots and shortfalls. When she talks about being punished, a feeling of karma. 'Perhaps....it is never clear what should be saved & what destroyed'.
'Maybe it's only in our injuries...that the future can take root.'
I love the way she looks back & recognises her own blind spots and shortfalls. When she talks about being punished, a feeling of karma. 'Perhaps....it is never clear what should be saved & what destroyed'.
'Maybe it's only in our injuries...that the future can take root.'
#rachelcusktogether
The repeated motif of life like a performance - scripts, acting lines, links with a feeling of fate unfolding. Where is free will in this?
The repeated motif of life like a performance - scripts, acting lines, links with a feeling of fate unfolding. Where is free will in this?
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The repeated motif of life like a performance - scripts, acting lines, links with a feeling of fate unfolding. Where is free will in this?
The repeated motif of life like a performance - scripts, acting lines, links with a feeling of fate unfolding. Where is free will in this?
#rachelcusktogether
'It was an interesting thought, that stability might be seen as the product of risk; it was perhaps when people tried to keep things the same that the process of decline began.'
The inevitability of decline, the opposite of progress.
The law of unforeseen consequences in Cusk.
'It was an interesting thought, that stability might be seen as the product of risk; it was perhaps when people tried to keep things the same that the process of decline began.'
The inevitability of decline, the opposite of progress.
The law of unforeseen consequences in Cusk.
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#rachelcusktogether
'It was an interesting thought, that stability might be seen as the product of risk; it was perhaps when people tried to keep things the same that the process of decline began.'
The inevitability of decline, the opposite of progress.
The law of unforeseen consequences in Cusk.
'It was an interesting thought, that stability might be seen as the product of risk; it was perhaps when people tried to keep things the same that the process of decline began.'
The inevitability of decline, the opposite of progress.
The law of unforeseen consequences in Cusk.
Into Great Silence
Exploring the meaning of Philip Gröning's extraordinary film, twenty years on
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Has anyone seen this film by Philip Groning (2005)? Sounds wonderful, just read a great post on it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Has anyone seen this film by Philip Groning (2005)? Sounds wonderful, just read a great post on it.
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I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I am bewildered that this labour of Sisyphus is being carried out by volunteers, while Southern Water, which has admitted responsibility for the catastrophe, is doing nothing to remediate it.
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Gerard's walks with Trixie 'had the benefit of erasing the element of choice from his daily life'. Confidence builds into misplaced certainty. Trixie streaks away reminiscent of Lili from Outline. Dogs racing down city streets, an image of freedom for Cusk?
Gerard's walks with Trixie 'had the benefit of erasing the element of choice from his daily life'. Confidence builds into misplaced certainty. Trixie streaks away reminiscent of Lili from Outline. Dogs racing down city streets, an image of freedom for Cusk?
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Gerard's walks with Trixie 'had the benefit of erasing the element of choice from his daily life'. Confidence builds into misplaced certainty. Trixie streaks away reminiscent of Lili from Outline. Dogs racing down city streets, an image of freedom for Cusk?
Gerard's walks with Trixie 'had the benefit of erasing the element of choice from his daily life'. Confidence builds into misplaced certainty. Trixie streaks away reminiscent of Lili from Outline. Dogs racing down city streets, an image of freedom for Cusk?
#rachelcusktogether
Powerful statement about failing as part of learning & change
'the deepest & most familiar thing he knew' 'By failing he created loss, & loss was the threshold to freedom: an awkward & uncomfortable threshold, but the only one he had ever been able to cross'
Powerful statement about failing as part of learning & change
'the deepest & most familiar thing he knew' 'By failing he created loss, & loss was the threshold to freedom: an awkward & uncomfortable threshold, but the only one he had ever been able to cross'
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Powerful statement about failing as part of learning & change
'the deepest & most familiar thing he knew' 'By failing he created loss, & loss was the threshold to freedom: an awkward & uncomfortable threshold, but the only one he had ever been able to cross'
Powerful statement about failing as part of learning & change
'the deepest & most familiar thing he knew' 'By failing he created loss, & loss was the threshold to freedom: an awkward & uncomfortable threshold, but the only one he had ever been able to cross'
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p2 'an enhanced concept of fate'
p4 'only the very lucky &...very unlucky...get an unmixed fate: the rest of us have to choose'
p7 'Only when their will has been exhausted do the majority of people recognise the decree of fate'
p8 'such fatalism as mine was rare'
PLUS
p2 'an enhanced concept of fate'
p4 'only the very lucky &...very unlucky...get an unmixed fate: the rest of us have to choose'
p7 'Only when their will has been exhausted do the majority of people recognise the decree of fate'
p8 'such fatalism as mine was rare'
PLUS
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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p2 'an enhanced concept of fate'
p4 'only the very lucky &...very unlucky...get an unmixed fate: the rest of us have to choose'
p7 'Only when their will has been exhausted do the majority of people recognise the decree of fate'
p8 'such fatalism as mine was rare'
PLUS
p2 'an enhanced concept of fate'
p4 'only the very lucky &...very unlucky...get an unmixed fate: the rest of us have to choose'
p7 'Only when their will has been exhausted do the majority of people recognise the decree of fate'
p8 'such fatalism as mine was rare'
PLUS
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I wonder how long Diane's lived on a different continent. We find that we take our issues with us, they catch up eventually. Early on there may be a sense of freedom as Gerard experiences.
I wonder how long Diane's lived on a different continent. We find that we take our issues with us, they catch up eventually. Early on there may be a sense of freedom as Gerard experiences.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I wonder how long Diane's lived on a different continent. We find that we take our issues with us, they catch up eventually. Early on there may be a sense of freedom as Gerard experiences.
I wonder how long Diane's lived on a different continent. We find that we take our issues with us, they catch up eventually. Early on there may be a sense of freedom as Gerard experiences.
#rachelcusktogether
Change and transit: 'both involve movement & transformation. Change typically refers to a shift or alteration...Transit...refers to the act of moving. While change can be gradual or sudden, transit is usually...more defined & intentional... thisvsthat.io/change-vs-tr...
Change and transit: 'both involve movement & transformation. Change typically refers to a shift or alteration...Transit...refers to the act of moving. While change can be gradual or sudden, transit is usually...more defined & intentional... thisvsthat.io/change-vs-tr...
Change vs. Transit - What's the Difference? | This vs. That
What's the difference between Change and Transit? Change and transit are both processes that involve movement and transformation. Change typically refers to ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Change and transit: 'both involve movement & transformation. Change typically refers to a shift or alteration...Transit...refers to the act of moving. While change can be gradual or sudden, transit is usually...more defined & intentional... thisvsthat.io/change-vs-tr...
Change and transit: 'both involve movement & transformation. Change typically refers to a shift or alteration...Transit...refers to the act of moving. While change can be gradual or sudden, transit is usually...more defined & intentional... thisvsthat.io/change-vs-tr...
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'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
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Gerald may have changed nothing, but by keeping things the same he changes - first he was overwhelmed thinking she would no longer see the things there, then he imagines her being hurt by seeing the things, and then being glad. These fleeting thoughts measure his change.
Gerald may have changed nothing, but by keeping things the same he changes - first he was overwhelmed thinking she would no longer see the things there, then he imagines her being hurt by seeing the things, and then being glad. These fleeting thoughts measure his change.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Gerald may have changed nothing, but by keeping things the same he changes - first he was overwhelmed thinking she would no longer see the things there, then he imagines her being hurt by seeing the things, and then being glad. These fleeting thoughts measure his change.
Gerald may have changed nothing, but by keeping things the same he changes - first he was overwhelmed thinking she would no longer see the things there, then he imagines her being hurt by seeing the things, and then being glad. These fleeting thoughts measure his change.
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'It's strange that you always changed everything & I changed nothing & yet we've both ended up in the same place.'
Echoes of Outline. (Non-) progressive going round in circles. The futility of change, the human condition of being stuck in the same place, inside and out.
'It's strange that you always changed everything & I changed nothing & yet we've both ended up in the same place.'
Echoes of Outline. (Non-) progressive going round in circles. The futility of change, the human condition of being stuck in the same place, inside and out.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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'It's strange that you always changed everything & I changed nothing & yet we've both ended up in the same place.'
Echoes of Outline. (Non-) progressive going round in circles. The futility of change, the human condition of being stuck in the same place, inside and out.
'It's strange that you always changed everything & I changed nothing & yet we've both ended up in the same place.'
Echoes of Outline. (Non-) progressive going round in circles. The futility of change, the human condition of being stuck in the same place, inside and out.
#rachelcusktogether
'the tiny orange dots thwat were the tips of the prisoners' cigarettes' seen from a distance is a poignant image of imprisonment. The human condition.
'the tiny orange dots thwat were the tips of the prisoners' cigarettes' seen from a distance is a poignant image of imprisonment. The human condition.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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'the tiny orange dots thwat were the tips of the prisoners' cigarettes' seen from a distance is a poignant image of imprisonment. The human condition.
'the tiny orange dots thwat were the tips of the prisoners' cigarettes' seen from a distance is a poignant image of imprisonment. The human condition.
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Gerard cycles by without seeing her. In 11 pages, there are three instances where people don't see her. Are they/we all so caught up in our own stories that we don't notice what's around us?
Gerard cycles by without seeing her. In 11 pages, there are three instances where people don't see her. Are they/we all so caught up in our own stories that we don't notice what's around us?
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Gerard cycles by without seeing her. In 11 pages, there are three instances where people don't see her. Are they/we all so caught up in our own stories that we don't notice what's around us?
Gerard cycles by without seeing her. In 11 pages, there are three instances where people don't see her. Are they/we all so caught up in our own stories that we don't notice what's around us?