Day 1,486: barren

Schumpeter visited an Amazon Fresh store in Los Angeles recently, the fresh-meat and -fish counters were so barren they looked like part of a going-out-of-business sale.

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Artwork of the day 
Louise Loved to Climb to the Summit on One of the Barren Hills Flanking the River, and Stand There While the Wind Blew
N.C. Wyeth
Date: 1907
Style: Realism
Genre: illustration
Location: Private Collection
Dimensions: 96.52 x 63 cm

Word of the day 
barren: unable to produce plants or fruit

Quote of the day
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil