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Hi, I'm Corey Rosemurgy. It's Valentine's Day.

I read Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits last year. I want, and should commit myself to making a tier list of the stories it contains. Tier lists are neat. Anyway, something I encountered in the short story "All the Lies That Are My Life" (1981), was a quote that has reemerged in my head on something like a weekly basis since I read its words. It is a quote from Sartor Resartus (1833-4) by Thomas Carlyle. It reads:

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today; for the night cometh, wherein no man can work.

This quote shouts at me and I want to find a way to have it invoke action in my off-hours vs. doom-scrolling ~ y o u t u b e ~ or otherwise. There is always plenty to do that one would be proud of once it's done...be it even "the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product."