It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay—a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory.

A) hard work

B) hard pleasure

C) deep thought

D)outward-seeking

Question

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay—a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory.

  A)  hard work

   B)  hard pleasure

   C) deep thought

    D)outward-seeking

anonymous · Answer

In this quote about personal essays from author Barry Lopez, which words are an oxymoron?