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... For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things, bring them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
hermann hesse - the glass bead game
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And now I'm looking back and thinking. And thinking makes me weary. It's the loss of things that kills us. And of the four humans in that pad that night, only two of us are still living and that's a bad dream come true. That shouldn't happen anymore. Vurt should have taken all are bad dreams and turned them into theatre, brilliant theatre.
jeff noon - vurt
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Knowing you, I can understand why you like that first quote, Z. But what is it that you find so remarkable about the second?
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(i like it's honesty. the notion that escapism will actualize as a solution. it is a depiction (albeit in an exaggerated form) of the particular species of hopelessness which works so hard to propagate it's self. the rejection is so total that it becomes metaphysical in scope. i have known this character many times. i have seen him in the mirror.)
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Had he ever done this before? he wondered. With pen and paper and the actual process occurring, it was as though he had never don anything else. But pause, even moments, and it was as if not only had he never done it, but there was no way to be sure he ever would do it again. - Samuel R. Delaney from Dhalgren
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A train came groaning into the station and stopped, snicking it’s doors open. “watch them,” Robin said, his quick eyes taking inventory of the people who jostled each other out of the train. “Not one in fifty is seeing anything. No one knows how far apart these pillars are, or the way all these rivets are set, or the cracks in the concrete under their feet. They’re all looking at things separated from them in space and time-the offices they have left, the homes they’re going to, the people they will see. Hardly any of them are consciously here, now. They’re all ghosts, and we’re a couple of Peeping Toms.”
theodore sturgeon - maturity
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