Trent Barton

Milo: “That’s ridiculous! Everybody thinks.”

Lethargians: “We don’t. And most of the time you don’t, and that’s why you’re here – you weren’t thinking.”

— The Phantom Tollbooth

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Is saying “I’m easy” in group decision-making because you’re either lazy, not phased, or aware that someone in the group is not so ‘easy’?

I could describe our lovemaking in the most ornately decorous prose, then you would behold it for what it was: a thing of complete beauty: that lean Z stretched into a flexing X, and those white-lashed eyes blank as a newborns’.

— Will Self

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

— Charles Robert Darwin 1838

“In the connected world we are constantly findable by our friends or whatever, …the age of gps and so on. Disappearing seems like an extremely exciting prospect. I mean, where are you going to disappear?”

— Rene Daalder on Bas Jan Ader’s final masterpiece In search of the Miraculous Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The life of Bas Jan Ader

“Uniquely in us, nature opens her eyes and sees that she exists.”
— Raymond Tallis