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  • Essay
    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
    • The sound of roots
      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      Summer’s lease
    • Editorial
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  • Poetry
  • Image
    • Deep Roots
      Deep Roots
    • Hope and Expectation
      Hope and Expectation
    • No Trespassing
      No Trespassing
  • Quote
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    • Upcoming
    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

the daily asterisk

The daily asterisk is a daily quote curated by the editors of Topology Magazine and distributed on the *culture is not optional network.

QuoteOctober 9, 2017

Let speeches fall silent

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Let speeches fall silent and platitudes cease from hawkers of violence they brand as “peace.” Let people who suffer find places to speak, and…

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QuoteJuly 31, 2017

The greatest of these is love

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it…

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QuoteJuly 28, 2017

All are welcome

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Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn…

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QuoteJuly 27, 2017

Life is not possible

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Life is not possible without an opening toward the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent…

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QuoteJuly 26, 2017

A kind of human kind of union

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We heard health care and we thought public option we thought reaching across the street across the lines across the aisle was the manifestation…

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QuoteJuly 25, 2017

There is only one world

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In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus, this being…

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QuoteJuly 24, 2017

The very design

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The very design of the suburbs inhibited the gathering of citizens who might want to mount a protest. Instead of broad parks at the…

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QuoteJuly 21, 2017

We like to be together

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Celebration is when we let joy make itself out of our love. We like to be together. We like to dance together. We like…

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QuoteJuly 20, 2017

A merrier world

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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If…

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QuoteJuly 19, 2017

The fool

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Touchstone in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It

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Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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