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“But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . . .”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
― Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
“They were Diegueños. They were armed with short bows and they drew about the travelers and knelt and gave them water out of a gourd. They’d seen such pilgrims before and with sufferings more terrible. They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight and they watched each day for that thing to gather itself out of its terrible incubation in the house of the sun and muster along the edge of the eastern world and whether it be armies or plague or pestilence or something altogether unspeakable they waited with a strange equanimity.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“No son las palabras lo que importa. Tampoco las acciones. Uno dice "buenos días", "cómo estás", "da lo mismo", "te quiero", "perdóname" y, después de todo, no significa nada. Uno hace tal o cual cosa y eso resulta, al fin y al cabo, como decir "no sé lo que hago". Por principio de cuentas, los otros interpretan palabras y acciones a su manera, como quieren o pueden entenderlas. Lo que importa, al fin y al cabo, son las consecuencias.”
― La obediencia nocturna
― La obediencia nocturna
“It’s not hard to perceive a certain deadening sameness that has begun to blanket the world under the sway of the Stacks, as the planet’s extraordinary diversity of lifeways yield to the unlimited perfect reproduction of the modes of taste, self-expression and subjectivity these new hegemons are tuned to. All of them are headquartered on the west coast of the United States, three of them within a ten-mile radius of Stanford University. They share a set of assumptions about who their user is, how that person lives and what they want; they share a grounding in the Californian Ideology18 and the casual technolibertarianism that has long reigned in the Bay Area; and latterly, they even tend to share a single overarching aesthetic.”
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
― Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
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