The Big Apple

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The Big Apple is a recurring place in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between October 21, 2024 and October 21, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “a life that is all The Big Apple and Chasing Dreams”. It most often appears alongside A Tale of Autumn, Abigail Yaga, Alex Patrick Dyck.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 1
  • Issue count: 1
  • First seen: October 21, 2024
  • Last seen: October 21, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

October 21, 2024 · Original source
In Joan Didion’s essay “The Women’s Movement” she talks about an eternal infantilization inherent to a life that is all The Big Apple and Chasing Dreams. If every responsibility outside oneself becomes oppressive, then liberation becomes a childlike solitude wherein you answer to no one. You can’t then really answer - even to yourself. I revisited this essay this week. I liked it more now. I like to quantify things. I would like to quantify the time I could theoretically spend spinning my wheels. I wish I could quantify how many thoughts I’ve ever had that are products of pure delusion.