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Because he had been sleepwalking, Clark realized, moving half-asleep through the motions of his life for a while now, years; not specifically unhappy, but when had he last found real joy in his work? When was the last time he’d been truly moved by anything? When had he last felt awe or inspiration?
Emily St. John Mandel • Station Eleven
By that night, she was deep into a Black Forest like Hansel and Gretel, her trail of bread crumbs being eaten by drinks.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
You don’t remember what happened this year
“A life tethered to a phone is a life tethered to a present tense, a stream of insistent notifications (ding!) beckoning the mind back to now. The technology is “fixing us into the absolute present,” [Graham] says.
“It’s like herding creatures off a cliff or gathering humans into a kind of narrow enclosure
... See moreSimon Critchley • Ecstasy & Idiot Glee
My faculties were chained up in wonder and awe.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
He looked at the face in the sun’s light, and discovered a peculiar intensity there. He knew the expression: it comes from hashish. Carried along on its hot fumes, a man can escape very far from the world of meaning.