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" Accordingly, he took the paper and
lowered his spectacles, measured the space at his command, reached his pen and examined it, dipped it in the ink and examined it again, then pushed the paper a little way from him lifted up his spectacles again, showed a deepened depression in the outer angle of his bushy eyebrows, which gave his face a peculiar mildness (pardon these details for once— you would have learned to love them
if you had known Caleb Garth) "
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Why Pardon These Details?
Details are how we experience the world and know each other.
The difference between faces in a crowd. The familiarity of the walk home. The way your best friend smiles.
More than ever before, we are surrounded by information and demanded for our attention — and attention matters.
Each Thursday, a new Pardon These Details story will be released, a story that can't fix the economy and won't transform your body in 30 days.
Instead, this story pays attention to the beard moss between flagstones and the periwinkle smudge of a receipt in a damp pocket.
Pardon These Details invites you to give your attention to the world at your doorstep in its most tiny, most enormous beauty.
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