Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 75
Dyssemia
There are ideas that shout. Dyssemia is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
The housewife with her kitchen budget runs a tighter ship than most finance departments. She knows the difference between price and cost — one is on the tag, the other is on the month.
Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.