I’m reading Michael Walzer’s Spheres of Justice for my chapter on theories of community and came across this quote from Emmerson:
Things are in the saddle
and ride mankind.
Walzer is talking about ideas of distributive justice, but Emerson’s quote is just the incentive I need to drastically cut down my possessions, i.e. the things that possess me 
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I’ve been doing alright cutting down my book collection but am getting stuck with old University notes, collections of readings, collections of train tickets from overseas etc etc. I’m not sure what I’m keeping them for…maybe they are actually trying to keep me )
