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Nothing excites me culturally anymore. Not really.
we have moved from a culture dominated by entertainment, to one that is dominated by digitally mediated distraction, which in turn generates a culture of addiction, or, as Gioia memorably puts it, Dopamine Culture.
L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
. Presto chango. The audience, if there is an audience at all, is dizzy from head-turning, dazed.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
Every time she came to a corner with a newsstand on it, Gilbert Wood was glaring out of the cover of People, aflame with sex and rage. But he still hadn’t called her,
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
She wasn’t curious about my past, she didn’t care about my opinions on literature or politics, and she had no interest in what I was studying. She simply took me for what I represented in her own mind—her choice of the moment, the physical being she desired—and every time I looked at her, I sensed that she was drinking me in, as if just having me t
... See morePaul Auster • Invisible
He had walked himself into a dull apathy of mind, and although his cheeks were still wet – the wind blew cold upon them – he was beyond the immediate pain.
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Psychedelic Zion