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MELI S S A A N T HONY A PPEARS ON PAGES 61, 70 & 71; HER ART APPEARS ON PAGE S 48, 71 , 8 5 , 8 7 & 88 . PA GE 8 WA S A C O LLABO RAT IV E EFFO RT BET WEEN US, UN L E SS I ’M MI S TA K E N . SHE A L SO MA DE THE ‘N URT URE T HE DEV IL’ T O T E BAG ON PAGE 19.

DANA D A N IE L S APPEARS ON PAGE 86; HER ART ALS O APPEARS O N T HAT PAGE .

RI C H T O M M A SO’S I NI MI TABL E L I NE FILLS PAGE 68. BRI AN S E N D E L B ACH DREW THE ‘ TOUCH PO NG’ STI C K ER O N PA G E 7 8 . THAT ’ S A L IC IA J OHNSON AND MI ND Y S LUT S KY, C I RC A 1 9 8 7 , ON PA GE 3 7 . THE PAI N TIN G S O N PA GES 2 3 A ND 82 WERE C OL LAB O R ATIO N S BETWEEN ME A ND G RA DY H A U G E R UD.

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THA N K Y OU TO AL L MY K I ND F RI ENDS WHO ’V E BEEN M ADE M AT ERIALLY P OOR E R B Y THEI R A SSOC IATI ON WI TH ME; I WI SH I CO ULD FO RES EE A FUT URE WHE R E IN Y OU C OULD AL L S E E S OME RECOMPENSE FO R YO UR GENERO S IT Y. BUT ALAS , I AM A MEN DICA N T, N OT A MENDICAN.

he written word is the vessel we entrust to shuttle us between individual minds. If the novel is as cozy an approximation of another’s internal narrative as we’re likely to contrive, then the visual storytelling media are our means of mass transit.

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NOT YOU NOR so,

I, T R U LY — then, who?

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THE MOST OBVIOUS, UBIQUITOUS, IMPORTANT REALITIES ARE OFTEN THE ONES THAT ARE THE HARDEST TO SEE AND TALK ABOUT. —David Foster Wallace

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good way to think about television--in fact all the media--is as a kind of telescope in the sky, flying around, constantly looki ng. Then from its perch in the sky, it zooms down to a single spot on the planet, a small group of people shooting each other. It takes this single event out of billions and billions of other little events and sends it zooming through space to television antennas, and then out through an electron gun into (on the average) 30 million people sitting at home in dark rooms with their eyes still. The event gets reconstructed in the brains of these people as an image. Recorded. All these 30 million people have recorded the same image from this single distant spot where they are not. This becomes their experience of that moment. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jerry Mander

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—William S. Burroughs, NAKED LUNCH

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

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W HE RE DO W E C O M E F R O M ? W HAT A R E W E ? W HE R E A R E W E G O ING? D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous. Paul Gauguin 1897-1898 oil on canvas 139.1 cm × 374.6 cm (54.8 in × 147.5 in) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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1. A long time ago, we w ere sin g le-celled organisms tha t vib r ated in the s eas.

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2. We a b d icated our individual ide nt it ie s to f orm bodies , which co uld wa lk u p r ig ht without breathing w a t er.

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3. Our hands made tools with which our minds might combat nature.

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4. We bound nature’s bounty by geometrical design and diverted our lusts into the aqueducts of empire.

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therefore, we split ourselves into opposites, and spent our lives spooked by our own reflections. 16

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6. Our globe was impaled upon an axis of antipathy.

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7. For an awful long time, our greatest good was to be steadfast

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as a rock, and we used words like PURE and GOOD and TRUE as if they were locations rather than magnetic loci of pull.

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8. We va l u ed a life s pent planted in the sa m e s q u a re fo o t in which we were bor n; we c o u l d nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lea ve t he f orest f or our own lea v es.

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9. Our animating ker nel was open code, but everyo ne was expected to ha ck their own propriet a r y operating s ys tems f rom scratch.

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10. From the single cell to the sleeper cell, we could never fully recognize other selves as legitimate; we tried to make our foils mere fools.

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11. We flattened forests into culture and shamed the bestial within us to build an ornate Versailles of externalized desire.

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12. We found that the deeper our roots ran into the raw ore of our animal past, the more our disparate, clashing branches found vertical purchase upon the light.

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13. In t he g ood old days, we had no need f or a ny o t her opinion than our ow n.

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at this, we undid ourselves, and then we were free to fall with the wind to clutter the dus tbins of entropy.

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14. Indeed, even our senescent epiphanies were often but a pendulum-like return to the perfervid prejudices of our parents;

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15. O n e d ay, we s l i p pe d the noose o f i n d i v id ua ti o n al toge t h e r by n a m i ng all our e l e m e n ta l foib l e s ; we com p i l e d a DSM of ch e m i c al bac kw ash be q u e a th ed unto us by t h e f at ho ma b l e d e ep.

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16. We de v el o p e d a si m u l ac r um ma ll wh e re i n ou r m a ss min d c o u ld r un wa r game s , s o a s t o select ou r c h o s en ve nt ure s fro m a n a rr a y o f pro b a b i l i st ic bra n c h i n g s.

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17. We liquidated our ontological holdings and merged vertically along the telluric lines between viable universes.

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18. Some day soon, an eye atop a pyramid will open, and a collective memory will flood into our mindsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a pre-birth memory, from when we were all one.

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THREE COLLABORATIONS WITH A YOUNGER SELF

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S tifle your p r a y e r s , b l o t o u t t h e s u n , borrow a l a n g u a g e a n d s n e e z e a sp o r e c l o u d o f g l y p h s down g r a v i t y ’ s g u l l e t . P ost-stamp, p r e - e x i s t , n eo-nonsens e , c r y p t o - c o n s c i o u s n e s s : free ship p i n g l i k e n o r m a l c h il d h o o d (now n e w ! n o n o w a r k n e e s !) , pbj-flavo r e d p o u t : “This is my sandbox, this is my game. L o o k , I l o s t a t o o th - I’m a livid mess of loss, glossed over by t h e g h o s t o f o r a n g e j ui c e - - o heaven o hell

Nature takes care of the rest, but the erosion of a formless void is not an easy thing.

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Have another pickle, Mr. Mayor McCheese-Grater. Okidata dot matrixide. Eclipse us, ellipsis...Let’s you and I slidelide. Pillar of sucre + papal saltshaker = syllabus Cellini. Le roi soleil sizzles on the sidewalk of summer, dissolve into dark like slow fad in fat pants.

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Ol’ father I slander yr factotem poetaster ‘Don’t mind if I do, dood--.’ At this, the kiddie table heaves its gold into lead like Or, as JJ senior 1nce blurted out in a mad wallop at verity:

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the deepfried debrief of declassé-fied dogswill of this thas thos thus thys thias theus presentday absentia-made now o’clock rock around the realtime ringtone hh:mm:ss.

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Oh yeah: go farther, old artificer; stand me now//as ever//in good yeggs. Woohoo “Look at me! I go forth to forge in the mimsy of my borogove

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Anyway, what was I sayin?

decommissioned darpa drones delivering pizza in a super-chill future where radical arrivals & heart-smart departures deport mad dizzy aliens down the drain, up to me.

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Knock on godswill, jinx vaccine!” Full of age thy father’s stolen seed needs boys born mater wise like Caesar needs bleeding ranch renderundo dressing you churlish wee chowderboffin.

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• veal asparagus • tripe mackerel • seaweed pubes

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found all along-formaldehidden (hahadehyde)-in victim’s throwup stomach. “There is an upper limit to your reach” is all I’m sayin’, Jeez!

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NIGHT SHIMMERING CHORUS CRICKETS SINGING CIRCUITS IN CURIOUS UPHILL VOICES: THIN & MEAN / FULL & KIND; FILL A STAGE, KILL A RHYME. EYES ALL EM ON ME LOOK IT AT UP DOT DOT DOT THE ABYSS

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REPREHENSIBLE, PREHENSILE, IMMUTABLE, MAWKISH ERECTILE, PUERILE PENETRALIA GLOSSOLALIA GIRLS LURED INTO SIN BY A BATCH OF BACHELORETTES TO PROMOTE AN UNLIKELY PAWN UPON THE OVERSTATED SILENCE.

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SHELTER ME. HELL’S A CROWD. I’M CENTERSTAGE, FIRST FALL OVER THE MOON. MUTT BITES MITT; THE MOCKINGBIRD SUITE.

IT’S COMING. COMING AND GONE BUT WHERE DID IT COME FROM? WHY DID IT LEAVE? IT SHINES, IT OSCILLATES, SHIMMERING FIRE IN THE SHIMMERING NIGHT SKY. THIS IS HOME, o v e r h e r e

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Knowing this only: in the darker hours of the night it shines, it sirens dead beauty, that is all. See the moon; mordant, mole-faced moorish moon misplaced in its orbit, shallow and pretty it’s a wonder it don’t fall. That pinkish sound. Those telescoping satellites. What’s it made of? Why’s it got that glow? You might think it’s foolish but it helps me reconsider my past. Does it inflate? Will it slide up my legs?

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own question, “Why has our universe gone out of its way to accomodate our existence?”

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but it’s mere cowardice to pretend we’re so small.

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-2. We call it objectivity,

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to the humble import of our station.

Hunger i nvent s e v e r y w o rd w e u s e .

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Frustration cultivates the cultural currency of each word-concept as it percolates through free trade generational parlance and reiterates itself ad infinitum until the heat death of the universe.

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a literate culture with a rationalized history, our human passions have evolved into constructs of language.

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A certain chemical angularity sharpens our awareness when we stand in the immediate proximity of darkness.

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A chromatic scale of emotional states attaches local bias to narrative vigor like climbing vines cover a lattice.

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3-D model showing the precise shape of the stars at the moment of our inception.

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instead of marks upon a plane it looks like an interactive

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6. At root, we are artefacts of our x, y, z address upon the vast globe of possible variations that describes the utmost extent of our existential terrain.

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7. We move or we die, until we die of moving.

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8. An inclusive heart is a living heart; necrosis attends every failure of imagination.

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9. We are iterations of tissue made inevitable by our statistical unlikelihood.

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Forward Looking Statement and other spilt texts from the evaporated floor of the ill-lit bibliotheque

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11. Our common ground of finite coordinates provides standing room for every imaginable pair of contradictions; envision our earth as if gridded into latitudes and longitudes of chemicallyabstracted primal states.

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12. Information-age man is entirely a creature of rhetoric; sophistry uninformed by the subtle pseudo-science of truth-seeking ultimately swamps us in spam.

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13. Only the imp of the perverse can reconcile irony with awe.

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14. Creative psychosis, properly contained within a superposition of identity and nested deep enough to hold our mass together, gives us wangs.

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ND THE NEXT THINGS WHICH HAPPENED THEN WAS THERE WERE ALL THESE PARTS OF PEOPLE MOSTLY LOOKING TO THE LEFT AND WITH THEIR LINES ALL OVER EACH OTHER AND MAYBE SOME WRITING; AND THEY ALL LIVED IN THE CUL-DE-SAC PRINCIPALITY OF RICHHARD JJ. TOMMASSOO’S BRAINPIECE. H T T P : / / W W W . R I C H T O M M A S O . C O M

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15. Think of faith as clothing; dress for the occas ion, and according to the weather.

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16. You needn’t believe in anything at all to manifest the transcendent madness of faith; just say the words and you’re there.

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1. IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S TRUE / FALSE.

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17. Each lateral escape from the labyrinth of the mundane takes us further from comfort and boredom.

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D.) I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE INTENDING TO SAY; BUT IF I’M CORRECT, I’M EMBARRASSED FOR YOU IF YOU THINK IT’S WORTH SAYING.

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C.) I CAN’T PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR INTERMINABLE SENTENCES AND YOUR ABSTRUSE OBSTACLECOURSE ESSAY ST YLE.

2. WHICH OF THESE IS MOST TRUE? A.) I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. B.) I HEAR WHAT YOU’RE SAYING.

3. Which of these seems like criticism you would offer me:

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c.) Go back to making comics. d.) Make a spectacle of yourself on youtube.

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a.) You should just make images and shut up. b.) You should write things with a strong narrative motor; fictionalize yourself into characters with clear motivations struggling against empathy-inducing odds to defeat some odious foe.

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4. WH IC H OF T H ES E STATE M E NTS D ES C R IB ES A T H O U GH T YO U ’D PR EF ER N OT TO S H A R E : a.) Your ‘art’ is like a hideous birthday present I feel obligated to pretend that I like. b.) Your work simply doesn’t fulfill any of the functions I require of my reading material. c.) I don’t think you see how erratic and unfocused you are. It’s not endearing. d.) I think you’re a genius, I guess, because I don’t even know how to formulate an opinion of anything you do. But, whatever—I said you’re a genius anyway, and that’s all you really want to hear at the end of this, isn’t it?

5. ARE SOME THINGS BETTER THAN OTHERS? YES / NO

6. The notion that there is such a thing as ‘the greater good’ is worthwhile, even if it’s less of a cohesive idea and more like a swarm of gnats tying knots in the air. AGREE / DISAGREE

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7. HOW INTERESTED WOULD YOU BE IN PARTICIPATING IN A SORT OF MARKET STUDY, WITH THE GOAL OF CRAFTING A CROWD-SOURCED ORGAN OF CULTURAL REVIEW? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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8. The ART word more accurately describes a focal length between a viewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pair of eyes and an enlarged conic volume of illuminated area. A spotlight draws our attention by obliterating the world outside its magic circle. The process of assimilation by which the causal wellness of our kind is ensured is uneasily predicated

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A pathogen that makes its host’s life less strenuous will conquer the organism; it won’t register as change if there’s no resistance to it. Similarly, an act of genocide only earns the name ‘genocide’ if it fails to live up to its name.

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DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE? YES / NO. EXPLAIN (OPTIONAL):_______________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________

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Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to let yourself be stupefied by the bells and whistles of your devices, or if you are too intoxicated by the chemical haul of your oversized sense organs to note the greater plasticity and more refined articulation of growth under the influence of pain, shame and

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on a sort of mass forgetting of some premise or other which erases all record of it ever having been absent from our foundational precepts. Duh, of course. But did we only start perceiving our world as a sort of Euclidean space after painting absorbed the assault against our subjective sense of space to the simpler consensus-winning system known as two-point perspective?

denial, please consider joining the mailing list below, which will distribute further variants of this document. I want to interview the mass of “you,” you unknowable quantity of folks, you.

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SO… ARE YOU 0? YES / NO. ARE YOU 1 OR 2? YES / NO. ARE YOU 3 OR MORE? YES / NO.

FIRST NAME:_ ___________________________________ LAST NAME:_ ____________________________________ EMAIL:_ ________________________________________

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BONUS QUESTION: 9. BELOW ARE T WO PROPOSITIONS, A AND B. DOES B FOLLOW FROM A, OR IS B A NON SEQUITUR 1 ? 1. NON SEQUITUR: LATIN ”THAT WHICH DOES NOT FOLLOW;” I.E., THE TWO STATEMENTS ARE NOT LINKED BY ANY RECOGNIZABLE MECHANISM OF LOGIC.

A) IF ONE CAN RISE FREE OF THE SELF-SHACKLING IMPERATIVE BY WHICH WE ARE CONVINCED TO PREFER WALKING OVER CLIMBING, ONE CAN BEGIN TO ACCLIMATIZE ONE’S MIND TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION.

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B) TETRIS WOULD BE A TERRIFYING, SAVAGE GAME IF IT WERE TRANSLATED INTO THE PHYSICAL WORLD.

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ANSWER IN YOUR OWN WORDS WITHIN THE AVAILABLE SPACE/TIME BELOW:_ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________

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I am Greedo.

< 3 VOL. B.) T.V. GU I DISCLAIMER: IT’S ALL ME. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY LAPSE OF DECORUM OF LATE. I INTEND TO PRESUME I’M WRONG; IF YOU TELL ME SO, MY GUT WILL PROBABLY HURT FOR A BIT. I’LL GO THROUGH THE DEFENSIVE MANEUVERS, BECAUSE THAT’S THE BEST WAY TO GET PAST THIS STAGE. I WANT TO SPEND AS LITTLE TIME AS POSSIBLE ON REACTION AND MAXIMIZE MY RESPONSIVENESS WHEN I LISTEN TO YOU.

He is Greedo.

FUTURISM IS FOLLY, BUT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO SQUINT INTO THE NEXT CURVE SO WE DON’T SPLATTER LIKE A BUG ON OUR OWN GRILL

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EVERYTHING I’VE EVER LET GO OF HAS CLAW MARKS ON IT.

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YOU WILL BECOME WAY LESS CONCERNED WITH WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OF YOU WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW SELDOM THEY DO.

JKJ

LOGICAL VALIDITY IS NOT A GUARANTEE OF TRUTH.

T RY T O L E A R N T O L E T W H AT I S U N FA I R T E A C H Y O U .

—David Foster Wallace

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“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” —St. Augustine of Hippo,

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Bias: Everyone wants to wish it away, but the secret of seeing the world without the distorting lens of ego is to occupy your bias with both feet flat on the ground, shoulderlength apart. This is the area you’ve been born and raised to occupy. Circumstance determines the follicle; the disposition of your fellows and any number of analogous variables determine the degree to which you are able to wrest your will free from arbitrary automatonlevel cognition. One of my ‘first principles’ is that it is better to be a wild hair than a tame one.

was filmed before its studio audience was even alive to jeer and hiss it off the soundstage in shame and send it, tears streaming, back into the arms of its loving producers.

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“There is no contradiction between free will and knowing in advance precisely what one will do. If one knows oneself completely then this is the situation. One does not deliberately do the opposite of what one wants.” — Kurt Gödel, from

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