4 July 2016

• Oafish: Rough or clumsy and unintelligent.
• (Simon Critchley)
• Flake away: (For bits of something) to brake away from the whole gradually or from natural causes.
• Amidst all this madness, all these ghosts and memories of times passed, it feels like world around me is crumbling, slowly flaking away. (Fatima Bhutto) 
• Malleable: Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure. 
• Abilities of all kinds are profoundly malleable. (Heidi Grant Halvorson) 
• The human brain is malleable, making it hard to distinguish between activities for which humans might be fundamentally wired, and those for which our minds are simply adjusting to meet the demands of the moment. (Cal Newport in The New Yorker)  (14/11/22)
• Cultures are more malleable than people, and often we view foreignness as precisely that, something that won't change us. (Mark Fried) 21/11/22