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Thor Heyerdahl
“(...), I faced the same opposition everywhere. I would have surrendered in front of an overwhelming army of academic giants, if I had not made an immediate discovery. They were giants each in their special field. But the greater experts they were in their own area the less they knew outside their narrow speciality. I began to feel like a little David confronted by an army of anthropological Goliaths, my slingstones being sweet-potatoes, coconuts and other hard evidence from biological genetics.”
Thor Heyerdahl, Expedition Kon-Tiki

Bret Easton Ellis
“I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing.”
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

Jean M. Auel
“De vrouwen vertellen een verhaal over de telwoorden. Ze zeggen dat Lumi, de maan, de minnaar is van de Grote Aardmoeder. Op de dagen dat Doni bloedt, wil Ze Haar Genot niet met hem delen. Dat maakt hem boos en kwetst zijn trots. Hij keert zich van Haar af en verbergt zijn licht. Maar hij kan niet lang wegllijven. Hij wordt eenzaam, mist Haar warme, volle lichaam en gluurt naar Haar achterom. Inmiddels is Doni van streek en wil hem niet aankijken. Maar als hij zich omdraait en in al zijn luister voor Haar verschijnt, kan Ze hem niet weerstaan. Ze opent
Zich wederom voor hem en ze zijn beiden gelukkig. Daarom worden veel van Haar feesten gehouden als de maan vol is. Sommige vrouwen zeggen dat hun fasen gelijk lopen met die van de Moeder - ze noemen hun bloedtijd de maantijd, en ze weten wanneer ze die moeten verwachten door op Lumi te letten. Ze zeggen dat Doni hun telwoorden heeft gegeven zodat ze het zelfs zouden weten als de maan achter de wolken schuilgaat,”
Jean M. Auel, The Valley of Horses

Emily St. John Mandel
“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

Thor Heyerdahl
“Coal-black seas towered up on all sides, and a glittering myriad of tropical stars drew a faint reflection from plankton in the water. The world was simple, stars in the darkness. Whether it was 1947 B.C. or A.D. suddenly became of no significance. We lived, and that we felt with alert intensity. We realised that life had been full for men before the technical age also - indeed, fuller and richer in many ways than the life of modern man. Time and evolution somehow ceased to exist; all that was real and all that mattered were the same to-day as they had always been and would always be; we were swallowed up in the absolute common measure of history, endless unbroken darkness under a swarm of stars.”
Thor Heyerdahl, Expedition Kon-Tiki

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