"Yeah, you want to be starting but I took it for granted, thinking I was ahead of him.
We take it for granted, thinking of the poverty-stricken thieves, hanged for stealing handkerchiefs in eighteenth-century London, that the argument of the "The Beggar's Opera" is not wrong: even when not explicitly political, crime can have an implicit politics.
Taking people for granted, thinking I can do it tomorrow -- that is wasting time.
You take it for granted, thinking people know about Freedom Fighters and the sit-ins and know about Jim Crow and the March on Selma and all of these things.
While working on this grant, and thinking about its geographic scope, something odd to the point of paradoxical kept pestering me.
Two generations have grown up taking 8% annual growth for granted and thinking recession was an ailment of the sclerotic West.
I guess I was kind of taking things for granted, maybe thinking I had a good year, that I deserved this or that.
"We just [took] this for granted without thinking it through".
In everyday life, we normally handle such facts fluently without consciously adverting to them: we take for granted without thinking about it, for example, that the colour of a car does not normally change when one changes gear.
Given my USP is challenging taken-for-granted-thinking, I didn't stand a chance.
Few of us are encouraged to do as Julia did, and eat in a way that lets us be formed, neatened, honed; that lets us take on eating as a thing to learn, a path that may leave us, god forbid and god grant, tasting and thinking of things differently than we do now.
