When I switched my son's diet, it occurred to me I had been following the rules without doing any thinking for myself.
Normally, of course, we simply know what we think while thinking, without any help from signs, and without any temporal or experiential gap between the subject and his thought [ 14, 40 ].
Nor had the rough red, almost a rash, on her cheeks, which was probably a result of going out in any weather without thinking about her complexion, and which, like her figure, like her muumuus, showed her independence.
He might go some way towards redeeming it; his grubby, bereaved, feisty engineer is the only semi-decent part, and well acted of course, although I worry he's on the way to becoming one of those actors – Jack Nicholson, Julie Walters, Josh from The West Wing – whom you can no longer watch believably in any "drama" without thinking: ooh, look, it's Jimmy Nesbitt.
After hearing Bas's impromptu DJ set, I can't listen to the original version of any song without thinking about how there's probably a ridiculous reggae cover of the tune online.
"I cannot listen to stories about kids killing themselves any longer without thinking [to myself], 'When are you going to have a little blood on your shirt for not being honest about who you are?'" said Glass with clear emotion in his voice.
Any thinking without act, however, is no thinking at all.
In my early 20s, when I first encountered Joan Didion's essay "The White Album," in which she describes taping to her closet door a list of items she would need for any spur-of-the-moment trip — "The list enabled me to pack, without thinking, for any piece I was likely to do," she writes — I longed to emulate her work.
