THE INCONVENIENT HUMANFIELD INDEX / 01DANIEL BERRY

A MAP OF THE MANUSCRIPT / NINE MOVEMENTS

Every chapter begins where a clean answer meets a complicated person.

The finished manuscript moves from desire through becoming. This index opens its nine chapter tensions; select one to explore it in place, then carry its question into The After.

06AMBITIONcreation / presence
CHAPTER 06 / The Uses of Ambition

What must even good work be allowed to interrupt—and what must it allow to wait?

Ambition can create, restore, shelter, and consume. The chapter follows work as refuge, vocation, unfinished possibility, and the laptop between two people who love each other. Authority over ambition includes the capacity to release it.

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