A daily quote from a favorite book, thematically paired with a song. This is a side project from one of my favorite bloggers Maria Popova.
“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckiest of the lucky, one out of a thousand or even a million. So however unlucky you may be on some occasion today, your presence on the planet testifies to the role luck has played in your past.”
—Daniel Dennett in Freedom Evolves, posted on June 5th, paired with “The Lucky One” by Au Revoir Simone.
Head on over to Literary Jukebox to listen to and read today’s pairing. I think I have found a new way to start my day.