Zack Hill by John Deering and John Newcombe for January 16, 2021

sure, let’s go with that

And it fits every day in history.

Was it famous before he wrote it?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Everything is situational. I haven’t been caught, yet and I still have a delusion of control.

It was the best of questions; it was the worst of questions.

liberty, equality, fraternity and once we guillotine the ruling classes out of existence life shall be glorious

Because he was a better writer than pretty much every writer out there today.

Modern writers may be good at developing story arcs and characters, but the art of wordsmithing is fading away.