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“I'm like a sort of living carpet. I need a pattern, a design, like you have on that carpet. I come apart, I unravel, unless there's a design." I looked down at the carpet, as Rebecca said this, and found myself thinking of Sherrington's famous image, comparing the brain/mind to an 'enchanted loom', weaving patterns ever-dissolving, but always with meaning. I thought: can one have a raw carpet without a design?”
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“She is an idiot Ecclesiastes," I said to myself. And in this phrase, my two visions of her—as idiot and as symbolist—met, collided and fused.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat / Hallucinations / Awakenings
Thomas Pynchon
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