## Metadata - Author: [[Stephen Jenkinson]] - Full Title: Come of Age - Category: #books ## Highlights - Setting out to write a book is something akin to setting out to discover a continent when the evidence and the general mood tell you that every continent worth finding and exploiting has already been found. ([Location 1087](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075PWBLSD&location=1087)) - I hope you’ll find that employing a language to subvert its madnesses and emerging with a syntax of sanity in a troubled time is worth the considerable trouble and attention to detail and disciplined sorrow that it will take. ([Location 1151](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075PWBLSD&location=1151)) - The young are deeply under-persuaded that, as obsolescence trashes the cultural and environmental landscape, paying attention pays. It isn’t easy to defend the idea that attention span is the social or moral obligation of the citizenry any more. The cost for doing so prohibits it. The cost is trying to pay attention to what’s going, going, gone, pretending it’s good for you to attend to the ghosted emotional and social landscape of an era in thrall to change. The old are muttering cantos of obsolescence, they themselves the trash on the landscape of their burdened adult children. ([Location 1240](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075PWBLSD&location=1240))