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Pale enamel-grey cover with a thin plum rule, the words What Is a Chore set in serif with Chore in plum italic, three lines of subtitle, and a large faint numeral zero at the lower right.
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What Is a Chore

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A chore is supposed to be a kind of task. But the same act is a chore for one person and craft for another, and the act does not change between them. Derived from exemplarity, a chore is an artifact made with the reading against its exemplar declined — which makes a chore list a document about the person rather than about the work. … readWhat Is a Chore

Black lacquer cover with the title What Is Perfection and a cobalt circle that does not quite close, a gold point marking the gap.
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What Is Perfection

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Perfection is supposed to be the top of the scale: the state a thing reaches when nothing more could be improved, and the state nothing ever quite reaches. The foundation says perfection is not a state of a thing at all. It is the exemplar — the complete and exact form of a condition, prior to the first attempt at it — and a mark cannot be it, because a mark and a form are two kinds of thing. That is why you can spot a bad circle without having seen a perfect one, why a perfect storm is not a good storm, why “nothing is perfect” needs no survey, and why “perfect”, said as praise, is a fact about the praiser. … readWhat Is Perfection