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moves at a certain speed approximately determined depending on the method of measurement. At a time t2 it is situated at a certain point in space. At a time t3, it has a certain spin value. From this collection of measurements it is possible to construct a history which is logically consistent.
true;
Under a given set of experimental conditions, a finite number of possible histories can be recreated using Griffiths’s method; these are c...
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the number of consistent histories that can be created from a single set of data is generally greater than one.
As a being you are self-aware, and this consciousness allows you to hypothesize that the story you’ve created from a given set of memories is a consistent history, justified by a single narrative voice.
You make this hypothesis about real life, rather than about the domain of dreams.”
“I’d like to believe that the self is an illusion,”
Moving through the half-light, he would suddenly find a way through—with some formula, some audacious factorization—and be transported to a plane of luminous serenity.
truth fluttering in the distance was still precarious; the last was the most thrilling, the most joyful.
At the beginning of 1974 Michel wandered into Hilbert spaces; launched himself into the theory of measurements, discovered the integrals of Riemann, Lebesgue and Stieltjes. At the same time Bruno was reading Kafka and masturbating on the commuter train.
One afternoon in May he had the pleasure of letting his towel fall open and flashing his cock at a couple of twelve-year-old girls at the new swimming pool at La Chapelle-sur-Crécy.
Bruno realized nonetheless that his half brother’s situation was worse than his own.
The Kreutzer Sonata
But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.
elderly person, a collection of steadily failing organs,
The agnosticism at the heart of the French republic would facilitate the progressive, hypocritical and slightly sinister triumph of the materialist worldview.
value of human life
contributed to a general mood of depression bordering on masochism.
In a few short hours that evening, Annabelle had come to understand that life was an unrelenting succession of lies. It was then, too, that she became aware of her beauty.
girl had found him attractive, and if one girl could, there might be others.
Francesco’s sole pleasure had been to smoke marijuana cigarettes with very young girls attracted by the spiritual aura of the movement and then fuck them among the mandalas and the smell of incense. The girls who arrived at Big Sur were, for the most part, stupid little WASP bitches, at least half of whom were virgins.
aesthete
his cells had begun to reproduce in a haphazard fashion, destroying the DNA of neighboring cells and secreting toxins into the body.
In contemporary Western society, death is like white noise to a man in good health; it fills his mind when his dreams and plans fade. With age, the noise becomes increasingly insistent, like a dull roar with the occasional screech. In another age the sound meant waiting for the kingdom of God; it is now an anticipation of death. Such is life.
probably habit which made him curious
these young people searching for spiritual values were really idiots.
he had already slept with more than five hundred women;
Raindrops splashed dully on the canvas; though only inches from his face, they could not touch him here. He had a sudden premonition that all his life would be like this moment.
Emotion would pass him by, sometimes very close.
icy water. Still, everything seemed strangely calm. He felt separated from the world by a vacuum molded to his body like a shell, a protective armor.
curettage.
This was precisely what they had been fighting for, he remarked, to ensure that a seventeen-year-old girl—“and a pretty girl, too,” he almost added—did not have her life destroyed by a holiday romance.
Feminism
In the midst of nature’s barbarity, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.
elementary particles.
chignon,
Human beings who have worked—worked hard—all their lives with no motive other than love and devotion, who have literally given their lives for others, out of love and devotion; human beings who have no sense of having made any sacrifice, who cannot imagine any way of life other than giving their lives for others, out of love and devotion. In general, such human beings are generally women.
concrete example of free will;
Many years later Michel proposed a theory of human freedom using the flow of superfluid helium as an analogy.
mewing or howling from his room.
His face was filled with abject, animal fear.
numbly,
Lieu du Changement
(Mikhail Bakunin).
He poured another whiskey, ejaculated on the magazine and fell asleep, almost content.
vitamin-enriched cereal,
Faustian
pederasts.
On the other hand, for young pussy wrapped in a miniskirt he was prepared to go to the ends of the earth.
As their flesh began to age, the cult of the body, which they had done so much to promote, simply filled them with an intensifying disgust for their own bodies—a disgust they could see mirrored in the gaze of others.
Farewell to limbs entwined in a clearing under the full moon! Farewell to the quasi-Dionysian spectacle of oiled bodies glistening under the midday sun.
