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Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
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Radiohead’s OK Computer
The great leap forward. Some people prefer The Bends; some OK Computer; some Kid A. But why the need to choose? “In an interstellar blaaaast, I am back to save the universe.” Are we meant to take this as a jubilant expression or one of cynicism? In fact, this album’s overall mood shifts between both and is not the gloomy, sour rock album it’s been portrayed as (though Yorke and the documentary...
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“Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
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“Novelists would do well to remember that when the works of the scholar-historians create doubt in the researcher’s mind, the researcher then turns to literature as a primary source for confirmation or correction. If the truth of a time, a people, a state is not available anywhere else, let it be in the novel. - from Twayne’s US Authors Series: JOHN A WILLIAMS by Gilbert Muller”
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“When I hug trees, the bark marks my cheek and reminds me I'm alive. Or that my nervous system is still intact. The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in all the air we choke on. They live and die in silence. So I hug them. Someone should.”
― Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
― Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
“I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.”
― Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
― Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
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“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
― Cosmopolis
― Cosmopolis
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i've been reading that book for 4 years! i've never gotten out of it. it's the only constant in my life.
one's worth is clearly based on the amount of books one claims to have read, regardless of title, genre, or quality.
chaos? it's beautiful!
step away from the bookshelf evan! what happened to my rule of only recently-reads?! otherwise it's just plain chaos.
yes and yes.
muahaha! sucker. do you prefer the term "free baser" or "crack head"?
