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“The Claude glass was also known as the ‘black mirror’ and was responsible for a number of minor mishaps. This is where history catches up with us. Our version of the black mirror, carried in the pocket, used by millions to ‘see’ rock concerts, fireworks displays and sunsets, is the smartphone. We look through it to make sure we are catching grainy footage of the wondrous thing we are missing.”
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

Sally Rooney
“You can love more than one person, she said. That's arguable. Why is it any different from having more than one friend? You're friends with me and you also have other friends, does that mean you don't really value me? I don't have other friends, I said.”
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

Julien Green
“Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…”
Julian Green, Paris
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“Running is analogue. It is hunter-gatherer. It is Palaeo. It is linear. It is long-form thought. It is an uninterrupted conversation with yourself. It is a journey back through modernity to your body. It is a way out of technology. It is a way to be free.”
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

Graham Harman
“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is there. It is the Empire of the Capital X.”
Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures

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