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The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.
‘We need an inflation-generative grammar.’
‘This, is it not the choice of the most supreme importance? Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times?’
Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her.
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
‘The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.’
You have been snared by something untrue. You are deluded. But this is good news. You have been snared by the delusion that envy has a reciprocal.
To be envied, admired, is not a feeling. Nor is fame a feeling. There are feelings associated with fame, but few of them are any more enjoyable than the feelings associated with envy of fame.’
Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.’
But so very much private watching of customized screens behind drawn curtains in the dreamy familiarity of home. A floating no-space world of personal spectation.
Sober cocaine- and stimulant-addicts sleep pretty well by the second month, straight alcoholics by the fourth. Abstinent pot- and tranq-addicts can pretty much forget about sleep for the first year.
Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger.
One of the highest prices of sobriety was not being able to keep from remembering things you didn’t want to remember,
He hadn’t quite gotten this before now, how it wasn’t just the matter of riding out the cravings for a Substance: everything unendurable was in the head, was the head not Abiding in the Present but hopping the wall and doing a recon and then returning with unendurable news you then somehow believed.
