Perpendicular stillness toward the earth is a form of ethical response

Evidence

Standing perpendicular to the earth, not pitching forward, not falling back, I asked how I could possibly express my gratitude for the unlikely spectacle of the pelicans. The answer was nothing. Just watch. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 683

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: The closing ‘nothing. Just watch.’ is the strongest rebuttal to the withdrawal misreading — attention as full ethical work, echoing the reader’s key idea of attention constituting a world.
• SHARE: Perfect capsule for the reader’s own case that Odell is not recommending withdrawal — one short closing line that carries the whole argument.