Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
THOMAS PYNCHONHe decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.
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If patterns of ones and zeros were ‘like’ patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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Shall I project a world?
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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