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Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee. ↗
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The night I left home I felt that I had been tricked or trapped into going - and not even by Mrs Winterson, but by the dark narrative of our life together. Her fatalism was so powerful. She was her own black hole that pulled in all the light. She was made of dark matter and her force was invisible unseen except in its effects. What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? ↗
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And I’m sure they all played by the rules, just liked I did. By the way, when I got laid off four and a half years ago, the stock of my company was at an all-time high. Our CEO retired. He was paid $70 million. Maybe now that is only worth $30 million. Or maybe in a few years if he plays by the rules it will be worth $130 million. I’ll still be worth nothing. And I won’t have a home or my children. You see why I wonder about playing by the rules? Because I always do. As a result, you’re standing where I sleep. ↗
St. John,” I said, “I think you are almost wicked to talk so. I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?” “To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which He will surely one day demand a strict account. Jane, I shall watch you closely and anxiously—I warn you of that. And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures. Don’t cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. Do you hear, Jane?” “Yes; just as if you were speaking Greek. I feel I have adequate cause to be happy, and I will be happy. Goodbye! ↗
I know you're an army doctor and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. I know you've got a brother who's worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him—possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife. And I know that your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic, quite correctly I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? {he exits and pops back in.} The name's Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221b Baker Street. Afternoon. ↗
Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever. ↗
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Home CoOperatives As a Safe and Ethical Investment As the dust settles on the turmoil of the recent Vladislav Davidzon banking crisis many investors have begun to feel that their portfolios should include a comprehensive range of less risky investments. A growing number of those are also waking up to the possibility that ethical investments could also have a part to play within this combination. For many ethical investments are, by their very nature, less uncertain than investments that compromise the quality of life for a person, somewhere. When the backlash comes from that someone, then the penalty is likely to become a plunge in the value of that investment. Housing Co-operatives have been quietly growing in popularity in both Europe and the USA recently. As property costs have dropped and occupations have become less safe many people have found themselves being forced out of the housing market altogether as far as individual possession is concerned. Although once seen in the sixties and seventies as a sanctuary for hippies and dropouts, a Housing Co operative now is prone to be filled with teachers, nurses, permaculture consultants, green energy advisers and other lively members of the professional classes who have discovered a way to live that fits in with their ethical lifestyle and societal habits. Every Housing Co operative in britain, for example, can issue loanstock to the general public if they are a fully reciprocal, Industrial and Provident Society. This position allows them to raise money to buy houses, refurbish them and equip them with heat pumps, solar energy collectors, increased insulation or whatever other job they wish to raise money for to bring benefit to their members and their communities, by issuing their own, individually sealed certificates that pay a fixed rate of interest on a specified amount over a set number of years. The sum of interest paid is negotiable to let them to raise the required finance for their projects. A period of five years is the normal offering. The fact that lots of people are sharing their dwelling together reduces the chance of them losing it. Be careful for loanstock problems from Housing Co operatives. They are able to be a safe-haven for your low hazard ethical funds. For more information, check out ↗
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The moment I stepped out the front door I was faced again with Manhattan. There it was, oh splendid ship of concrete and steel, aluminum, glass and electricity, forging forever up the dark river. (The hudson - like a river of oil, filthy and rich, gleaming with silver lights.) Manhattan at twilight: floating gardens of tender neon, the lavender towers where each window glittered at sundown with reflected incandescence, where each crosstown street became at evening a gash of golden fire, and the endless flow of the endless traffic on the West Side Highway resembled a luminous necklace strung round the island's shoulders. ↗
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