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James Parker
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“The water hits, and biology asserts itself. You are not a tired balloon of cerebral activity; you are a body, and you are being challenged. You gulp air; your pulse thumps. Your brain, meanwhile, your lovely, furry old brain, goes glacier-blue with shock. Thought is abolished. Personality is abolished. You’re a nameless mammal under a ravening jet of cold water. It’s a kind of accelerated mindfulness, really: In two seconds, you’re at the sweet spot between nonentity and total presence. It’s the cold behind the cold; the beautiful, immobile zero; a flame of numbness bending you to its will.”
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“Ode to Brain Farts Whistling synapses. Dead sparks launched from the neurotransmitters. Dismay, and a kind of terror at the blankness.”
― Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
― Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
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