Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether
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“Let Dada answer: 1. there is no right way to live, just follow your nose, and 2. a good man is one who lets others live as they please (even as he shocks them into Joy).”
― The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess
― The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess
“If the 20th century has taught us anything, it is that we will forget everything except the box it came in.”
― The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess
― The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess
“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― James
― James
“Because they were ready for us, and waiting. The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.”
― The Handmaid's Tale
― The Handmaid's Tale
“What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. But if I was your enemy with whom would you have shared me? With whom?”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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