Brady Dale

“When you punish a person for dreaming his dream
Don't expect him to thank or forgive you.”
― John Darnielle

“It’s an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.”
― Greg Taylor, Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

“But every now and then, when the posters on these sites muttered about “lurkers,” I’d shudder like a Soviet mole in the Pentagon. Because, yes, I lurked: I visited boards but didn’t post; I took without giving.”
― Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet

“Spritz is for not-real readers, evidently. And here’s where our most sacred class values come in, pounded with a mallet. It’s no surprise that the Atlantic and the New Yorker serve as the old guardians, policing the borders of literacy. Spritz works, they concede, for stuff you have to read—discovery, briefs, memos, and social media “updates” for data merchants and info tradesmen—but not for the pleasure reading of books that defines the bona fide man of leisure and letters. Juxtaposing a moral line on a class line, Spritz, several reviewers argue, is not for virtuous people who like to read. It is for subliterate business types who have to read.”
― Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet