To Durkheim, the ‘sacred’ constituted that which society as a whole held apart, separate, in the realm of high-minded ideals. In contrast, the ‘profane’ is that which is everyday – the purview of individual people figuring out their normal lives.
While the four temperaments may not be grounded in amazing science, they do describe consistent personalities you can observe in the world around you.
Celebrated for her humanistic, domestic, and gorgeously observed novels about Baltimore’s middle- and working-class families, Anne Tyler is the kind of single-minded writer who has found her niche and writes it very, very well.
Writing, even when performed with vigor, can still be unproductive. If you write purely for your own enjoyment, that’s not a huge problem, but if your aim is to share your art with others, you need to know how to avoid binge writing.
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