You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.
THOMAS PYNCHONPerhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.
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If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
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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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A screaming comes across the sky.
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A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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Information. What’s wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world’s gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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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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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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Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines.
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It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
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My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists; meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.”
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For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
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Shall I project a world?
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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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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