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Polybius: the video arcade game that allegedly killed some kids in Oregon.
rhubarb grows so fast you can actually hear it?”
“Those are the first three words of the tenth canto of Dante’s Inferno. ‘Now onward goes.’ ” “Right,” I said. “ ‘Now onward goes along a narrow path, between the torments and the city wall. I follow my master,’ or something like that.”
dead letter office
Picking out what’s important from the static they use to confuse us is a key aspect of achieving success in the game of life.
It was an eclectic collection of slightly useful but mostly ornamental detritus.
It was a kind of visual tone poem to general fucked-uppery.
‘frequency illusion’ is probably more accurate. It’s about how something you’ve recently been told, experienced, or noticed suddenly crops up everywhere.
the novel Gravity’s Rainbow teaches you how to read it as you’re reading.
sonic backdrop of the arcade.
well-known painting called Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth,” I said. “I’ve seen the original hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
a French thriller from 2003 called Swimming Pool.
Invisible Cities.

