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Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.

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Charles D'Ambrosio

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Caring, Mistake, Mistakes, Short, Thinking
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Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Chaos, Hands, Hurt, Hurts, Somebody

We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

Choices, Coexistence, Contradiction, Feelings, Fluctuation, Living

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.

Believe, Dream, Imaginary, Nostalgic, Past, Wholeness

Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.

Dream, Dreams, Loss, Nostalgic, People, Thrive

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Differently, Drawer, Essays, Kick, Lots, World
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