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\"\"<\/a>

Mikhail Clodt, Der Abschied<\/i>, before 1902.<\/p><\/div>\n

It is a strange thing to monetize your emotions. Anyone who writes or creates knows this. And the work one does on the Internet feels insubstantial, even by the flimsy standards of intellectual property. Any body of digital work is a funny mixture of ephemeral and immortal, and it\u2019s hard to know how to feel about such an archive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today marks my final column as the Daily<\/em>\u2019s correspondent. When I started writing these casuals, in January 2014, I thought of them as a challenge: to try to do something small, well, and consistently. There are certain kinds of writing\u2014good writing\u2014that are actually better suited to this medium than to print, and translating the personal and fleeting into something public seems to me one of the Internet\u2019s primary gifts. The challenge comes not in finding inspiration, but in trying to strike the balance of confidence\u2014that one\u2019s observations have merit\u2014and humility: recognizing that they\u2019re not inherently interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I want to thank those of you who have taken the time to read these little pieces. And I\u2019ll leave you with my favorite Barbara Pym quote:<\/p>\n

\n

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things \u2026 the trivial pleasure like cooking, one\u2019s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Words to live\u2014and write\u2014by.<\/p>\n

Sadie Stein is contributing editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review, and the\u00a0<\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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