Yama

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time. PAUL VALÉRY”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“If you say: 'I am real, this is real, the world is real', no one laughs. If you say: 'This is a simulacrum, you are no more than a simulacrum, this war is a simulacrum', everyone bursts out laughing.”
― Jean Baudrillard