Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called empathog
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
meticulous
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Maggie Jones
Kent Haruf • Plainsong (Plainsong series Book 1)
callousness
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon
... See moreCormac McCarthy • Blood Meridian
itinerant
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
abnegation,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
Resolution theory.