We must choose true objects, constantly objecting to our own desires.
Persistence is technical and wields the grain of enlargement.
Under sound horns and outward buzzes. Dumb blocks to hills and rain puddles on asphalt and tracks. Sunk plywood and stains on a hung walkway. I wrote, I noted, I compared, I drew my own conclusions. And thus I kept my intellect active, agile, thoroughly in self-command.