People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.
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