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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. We are back in the Byzantine situation, where idolatry calls on a plethora of images to conceal from itself the fact that God no longer exists. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of a presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”
― Cool Memories
― Cool Memories
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on)
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*Note: This group, although it lives on in a sense, like a photograph, capturing a moment so people can look back later and go, "Oh, wow, you looked s ...more
Goodreads Interviews
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This is the group where the interviews with Goodreads participants will be conducted and posted.
The Vernon D. Burns Appreciation Society
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— last activity Sep 08, 2012 12:47PM
I appreciate Vernon D. Burns and all that he has done for postmodern literature. This is a group where his six or seven fans can keep in the loop abou ...more
Completists' Club
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A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more
The Magnificent Seven (New Bizarro Author Series 2010-11)
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We are the second class of Eraserhead Press's New Bizarro Author Series. We're awesome. ...more
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