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The city can seem cold and unfeeling. Thus, the temptation arises to shoehorn the masses into roles limited to acrimony or apathy, simply based on random anecdotal experiences.
Early morning is the best time to mitigate this wrong perception. Early morning people are different. They spontaneously greet each other and show consideration. Kind words are exchanged and eyes, for once, are not averted.
After 9 AM there begins a slow shift for the worse. The late risers trickle to the streets, leaking poison into the day’s veins. By noon, one might as well return to bed and wait for the next morning in order to continue bending this perception back into the right shape.
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amateur anthropologist flies into the sun,
city life,
human behavior,
human nature,
morning,
perception,
redemption,
sometimes people still manage to surprise me,
sundays,
the antidote is also the poison,
the antidote is inside all of us
Posted by sean on September 28, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/09/28/early-morning-people/
“Such a person who perceives everything and sees everything and who observes everything, moreover continually, is not popular, more often feared, and people have always guarded themselves against such a person, because such a person is a dangerous person and dangerous persons are not only feared but hated, and in that respect I have to describe myself as a hated person.”
[25 pages later…]
“Just because he had been despised by everyone, and actually even hated, I had been attracted to him, I have always had a predilection for the despised and hated.”
—Thomas Bernhard, Yes
Posted by sean on April 22, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/04/22/such-a-person-who-perceives-everything/
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