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In her 1974 essay ‘Seeing’, Annie Dillard writes covetously about the experiences of a group of people blind from birth who recovered their sight after cataract operations in the nineteenth century. Their brains hadn’t ever learned how to
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“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
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“Politics doesn’t require talent, intelligence, or good looks. Truly, someone like Donald Rumsfeld, a mediocre government functionary with no discernible talent, intelligence, or charm, is a greater international celebrity than Mick Jagger. Rumsfeld, despite being a has-been, is known in every corner of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa for his insanity and arrogance, while Jagger is admired by a mere couple hundred million music enthusiasts, huddled mostly in the First World.”
― Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group
― Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group
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