“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this bed any longer.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will…”— Jonathan Gottschall, amazon.com
“Everyone knows that the light of the stars needs a very long time to reach us; sometimes we perceive it after the star itself has disappeared. This gap between the star as a virtual source and its perception by us, this non-simultaneity, is an inescapable part of the illusion of the world, the absen…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com