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“The Zen Lunacy bard of old desert paths, see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they really didn’t want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk.”

Hotels are superstitious places. No thirteenth floor or room thirteen, no mirrors on the back of the door you come in through, stuff like that.

Pain sharpens the understanding and strengthens the mind.

If Beethoven may be called the ideal listener for a troubadour, Schubert has a right to be called the ideal troubadour (Nietzsche)

…Mass meetings at night were more effective than in the daytime. 'During the day', he wrote, 'man's will power revolts with highest energy against any attempt at being forced under another's will and another's opinion. In the evening, however, they succumb more easily to the dominating force of a stronger will.'
Pavlov would have agreed… fatigue increases suggestibility…commercial sponsors prefer evening hours.

At the sight of a waterfall we think we see in the countless curvings, twistings and breakings of the waves capriciousness and freedom of the will; but everything here is necessary, every motion mathematically calculable…The history of the moral sensations is the history of an error, the error of accountability, which rests on the error of freedom of the will.